Skip to content
Artwork for VS Code Insiders Podcast
VS Code Insiders Podcast · Oct 13, 2025 · 25 min

Building agent memory for VS Code with Harald Kirschner

Harald joins James to talk through customizing chat, agents, and GitHub Copilot with custom instructions, prompts, and modes. We go deeper int new proposed APIs that pulls them together to create agents and how Harald implement agent memory and shipped it as an extension! Follow VS Code: X: https://x.com/code Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/vscode.dev YouTube: https://youtube.com/code LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/104107263 GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode Special Guest: Harald Kirschner. Links: Customize chat and agents Custom Instructions Prompt Files Chat Agent Modes Agent memory extension VS Code v1.105

0:00-25:41

transcript

No transcript — this publisher did not publish one.

show notes

Harald joins James to talk through customizing chat, agents, and GitHub Copilot with custom instructions, prompts, and modes. We go deeper int new proposed APIs that pulls them together to create agents and how Harald implement agent memory and shipped it as an extension!

Follow VS Code:

Special Guest: Harald Kirschner.

Links:

links11