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How-To Videos for Copilot Agents and Skills

A short list of practical YouTube walkthroughs from reputable channels. The focus is GitHub Copilot in VS Code: agent mode, coding agent handoffs, MCP tool use, and Skills.md workflows.

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GitHub Copilot Agents

Agent Mode and Coding Agent

Start here for practical demos of when to use Ask, Edit, Agent mode, MCP tools, and background coding agent work.

Official Visual Studio Code · English

VS Code Live: Agent Host, Agents window, Blobby, UI Updates & Perf Improvements

This official October 8 VS Code livestream, archived on YouTube October 9, reviews agent automations, HydraFusion, issue and pull-request context, Voice Mode, the Copilot harness and Agent Host, Agents window updates, UI changes, and performance improvements.

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Official GitHub · English

Run GitHub Copilot Agent Sessions Across Any Device

This October 8 GitHub Copilot Day session explains how the Copilot SDK and Agent Host Protocol can make agent sessions portable, then demonstrates a Copilot agent on a home Linux host with live updates across clients. Some CLI commands shown are preview or reference tooling rather than generally available features.

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Official GitHub · English

Intelligent Local Model Routing Is Coming to GitHub Copilot

This October 7 official GitHub preview shows intelligent local model routing coming soon to GitHub Copilot: automatic discovery of supported Ollama and Microsoft Foundry Local models, optional MAI Code 1.1 Flash on capable devices, and auto-routing of suitable explanations, implementation work, and long-running automations to local compute for zero AI Credits and offline use.

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Official Visual Studio Code · English

VS Code Learn: Spring Boot with Copilot: Build, Debug, MCP & Playwright

This October 6 official walkthrough builds and debugs a Java Spring Boot application with GitHub Copilot in VS Code, exposes application features as MCP tools, and validates the result with Playwright.

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Official GitHub · English

Inside Project HydraFusion: multi-model orchestration in the GitHub Copilot | demo | GitHub Checkout

This October 2 official GitHub Checkout walkthrough explains how HydraFusion evaluates coding intent and routes tasks through single-model, cascade, or critique execution patterns, with demos and experimental availability in Copilot CLI, plus research-preview availability in the GitHub Copilot app and VS Code.

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Official Visual Studio Code · English

VS Code Learn: Microsoft Foundry Extension in VS Code

This October 1 official walkthrough shows how the Foundry Toolkit keeps model selection, prompt testing, model deployment, and wiring an agent into an application inside VS Code.

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Official Visual Studio Code · English

VS Code Learn: Extending Agents

This September 24 official walkthrough explains how to extend VS Code agents with tools and tool sets, permission and sandbox controls, MCP servers, Agent Plugins, and third-party Claude and Codex agents.

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Official Visual Studio Code · English

Agent Merge: Keep Your PR Moving in VS Code

This September 22 official walkthrough demonstrates experimental Agent Merge monitoring a pull request, addressing review feedback, failed checks, and merge conflicts, rerunning builds and tests, and continuing until the pull request is ready to merge.

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Official Visual Studio Code · English

VS Code Learn: Agent-First Development

This September 17 official English-language premiere demonstrates agent-first development in VS Code, including project customizations, starting and controlling sessions, where sessions run, Agent Debug Logs and Chat Debug View, and building an app with agent mode.

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Upcoming Visual Studio Code · Portuguese

🔴 Da ideia à especificação: prepare seu projeto para agentes no VS Code

This official Portuguese-language premiere, translated as “From Idea to Specification,” was announced September 11 and is scheduled for October 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM CT. It will show how to turn an app idea into explicit requirements, scope, and acceptance criteria, then prepare AGENTS.md, custom instructions, and prompt files so agents start from durable project guidance.

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Upcoming Visual Studio Code · Portuguese

🔴 Da especificação à aplicação: desenvolva e valide com agentes no VS Code

This official Portuguese-language premiere, translated as “From Specification to Application,” was announced September 11 and is scheduled for October 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM CT. It will continue from a written specification into Copilot planning and implementation, emphasizing small testable increments, automated checks, change review, and validation against the original acceptance criteria.

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Official Visual Studio Code

Build Once, Run Everywhere: Agent Plugins Guide

This September 2 official walkthrough shows how Agent Plugins package skills, MCP servers, custom agents, and supporting resources for reuse across projects and teams.

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Official Visual Studio Code

Agent Sessions that Sync Everywhere with VS Code

This August 20 official walkthrough covers persistent Agent Host sessions that stay available across editor windows, machines, and remote clients.

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Official Visual Studio Code

Latest Official Agent Videos and VS Code 1.141

Recheck the official VS Code channel after each weekly release for new Copilot and agent feature videos. The October 9 VS Code Live recording is the newest matching official feature video; GitHub's October 8 cross-device agent-sessions session remains the newest focused GitHub Copilot workflow video. The Portuguese premieres scheduled for October 21 and October 28 remain upcoming. VS Code 1.141 is the newest stable release, released October 7, while the 1.142 Insiders line receives daily builds and may occasionally break. Stable 1.141 adds agent worktree cleanup, cross-platform terminal sandboxing, session grids, external Copilot and Codex continuation, background-shell tracking, and enterprise policy updates.

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Official Visual Studio Code

VS Code 1.141 Release Notes for New Agent Features

Use this official release page alongside the VS Code YouTube channel until a dedicated feature video lands. It covers inactive-worktree cleanup, cross-platform terminal sandboxing, session grids, external Copilot and Codex continuation, background-shell tracking, discovered MCP servers, and unified enterprise managed settings.

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Official Visual Studio Code

DEMO - Build your first app with agent mode

A recent VS Code Learn demo showing Agent Mode with Plan Mode building a URL shortener app from scratch.

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Official Visual Studio Code

Ask, Edit, & Agent - In-depth Overview of GitHub Copilot Chat Modes

A 55-minute walkthrough of Ask, Edit, and Agent mode in VS Code, including when to switch modes and how MCP fits into agent workflows.

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Official Visual Studio Code

Agent mode in GitHub Copilot

A concise introduction to agent mode in VS Code, useful for seeing the basic interaction pattern before moving into longer tutorials.

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Official GitHub

When to use GitHub Copilot coding agent versus agent mode

GitHub explains the split between autonomous background work in Copilot coding agent and interactive development in VS Code agent mode.

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Official Visual Studio Code

Use GitHub Copilot agent mode to create an application from scratch

A hands-on build showing how agent mode plans, edits, runs commands, detects errors, and keeps iterating toward a working app.

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Official Visual Studio Code

Working with MCP servers in GitHub Copilot Agent mode

Shows how MCP servers extend agent mode with outside tools and context, including a practical setup and demo inside VS Code.

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Official Visual Studio Code

GitHub Copilot Agent Mode: Build an iOS App in Minutes

A quick demo of agent mode generating code, handling project setup, and responding to build feedback in a real app workflow.

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Agent Skills

Skills.md and Reusable Agent Workflows

These videos focus on creating and using agent skills so Copilot can load specialized instructions only when they are relevant.

Official Visual Studio Code

Introducing Agent Skills in VS Code

A compact introduction to what Agent Skills are, why they matter, and how to create a first skill for use in VS Code.

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Official Visual Studio Code

Let it Cook - Agent Skills aka Skills.md in VS Code

A longer discussion and demo covering Skills.md, how Copilot loads skills, and how the format works across agentic coding tools.

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Docs Behind the Videos

Use the videos for walkthroughs, and use these docs when you need exact syntax or current product behavior.

About agent skills - GitHub's conceptual overview of how skills work with Copilot.
Introduction to agent skills - VS Code Learn's current skills walkthrough for the editor.
Adding agent skills for GitHub Copilot - the implementation guide for creating `SKILL.md` folders.
Using Copilot agent mode in VS Code - GitHub's current agent-mode steps for the editor.
About Model Context Protocol - GitHub's reference for MCP and how it extends Copilot with tools and context.
VS Code 1.120 agent updates - earlier VS Code release notes for Agents window preview, BYOK visibility, terminal risk checks, and Copilot CLI plugin discovery.
VS Code 1.121 stable agent updates - an earlier VS Code reference for remote Agents window sessions, Agent Host Protocol, agent observability, model configuration, and agent-aware terminal behavior.
VS Code 1.122 iteration agent updates - earlier VS Code iteration notes for remote agent tasks, source-control refresh after agent git operations, /models chat access, air-gapped BYOK, and local agent host defaults.
VS Code 1.124 iteration agent updates - earlier VS Code release notes for background send, session navigation, restore-on-reload, advanced Autopilot, integrated browser history, toolbar customization, and enterprise-managed Copilot plugin policies.
VS Code 1.135 agent host and external-session updates - recent stable VS Code release notes for external Copilot and Claude agent sessions, Rubber Duck review, detailed chat token usage, single-pane Agents window defaults, and Agent Host Protocol work.
VS Code 1.136 Agent Merge and multi-root agent updates - recent stable VS Code release notes for Agent Merge preview, multi-root Copilot and Claude agent sessions, chat backgrounds, and hierarchical chat sessions.
VS Code 1.137 automation and voice agent updates - recent stable VS Code release notes for scheduled agent automations, Voice Mode, GitHub issue and pull request context, queued agent messages, and Agent Host behavior.
VS Code 1.138 Dev Container and Codex agent updates - recent stable VS Code release notes for local agent sessions in Dev Containers, expanded Codex handoffs and VS Code tools, pull-request creation, session cleanup, and Voice Mode session awareness.
VS Code 1.140 agent orchestration and enterprise-control updates - the previous stable VS Code release notes for the Copilot harness, HydraFusion, multi-folder sessions, remote delegation, worktree reuse, higher orchestration capacity, and enterprise AI controls.
VS Code 1.141 stable agent and security updates - the newest stable release, covering inactive-worktree cleanup, cross-platform terminal sandboxing, session grids, external Copilot and Codex continuation, discovered MCP servers, and enterprise managed settings.
Introducing the Agent Host - the newest official VS Code blog source for persistent portable agent sessions, the Agent Host Protocol, local and remote hosts, and multiple harnesses.
GitHub Copilot weekly releases - August 24 - a recent cross-client Copilot roundup, covering Copilot app customization, CLI permission defaults, VS Code 1.135, Visual Studio model controls, and team agent sessions.
GitHub Copilot in VS Code August releases - the newest official VS Code-specific Copilot roundup found during the September 5 refresh, covering grouped agent sessions, integrated browser feedback, transcript review, per-model usage, and dictation cleanup.
GitHub Copilot weekly releases - August 31 - a recent official cross-client Copilot roundup, covering GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 3.8 Flash, content exclusions, JetBrains harness GA, and VS Code 1.136 agent workflows.
VS Code Agent Host architecture - current official VS Code docs for the Agent Host Protocol, shared sessions, standalone local or remote agent hosts, and client-contributed tools.
Remote agent sessions in VS Code - current official VS Code docs for connecting to remote agent hosts by SSH, dev tunnel, or the browser-based Agents window.
VS Code 1.132 agent host and integrated-browser updates - recent stable VS Code release notes for Agent Host Protocol rollout, integrated-browser element comments, side chats with /btw, live session activity pills, multilingual dictation, and Markdown diffs in the hybrid Markdown editor.
VS Code 1.131 agent host and subagent updates - recent stable VS Code release notes for running-subagent visibility, agent host architecture, built-in dictation, and hybrid Markdown editing in the Agents window.
VS Code 1.130 agent host and assisted approval updates - recent stable VS Code release notes for Agent Host Protocol work, assisted tool approvals, aggregate AI-credit visibility, MCP refinements, and adjacent Copilot workflow changes.
VS Code 1.126 agent and model updates - prior release notes for whole-session AI-credit cost, unified context and reasoning controls, multi-chat Agent Host sessions, and Restricted Mode defaults for unfamiliar folders.
VS Code 1.125 agent and model-provider updates - prior VS Code release notes for model-provider discovery, additional-spend visibility, integrated browser improvements, forwarded-port handling for agents, and native MDM delivery for managed Copilot settings.
Use the Agents window in VS Code - the current official VS Code docs for starting and managing Local, Copilot, Claude, Codex, and Cloud sessions, reviewing changes, and using worktree or Dev Container isolation.
Choose and use an agent harness - current VS Code guidance for choosing a session target, starting a session, configuring a harness, code isolation, and handoff.
Remote control for Copilot CLI sessions - GitHub's current GA announcement for steering Copilot CLI sessions from mobile, web, VS Code, and JetBrains.
VS Code 1.119 stable agent updates - the previous stable VS Code release notes for agent browser sharing, OpenTelemetry tracing, model-cost badges, and agent sandbox changes.
VS Code Live: Agent Host, Agents window, Blobby, UI Updates & Perf Improvements - the official October 8 livestream, archived on YouTube October 9, covering agent automations, HydraFusion, issue and pull-request context, Voice Mode, Agent Host and the Copilot harness, UI updates, and performance.
How to run GitHub Copilot agent sessions across any device - the October 8 GitHub Copilot Day session on the Copilot SDK, Agent Host Protocol, portable sessions, and live multi-client updates, with preview tooling clearly identified.
Intelligent local model routing is coming to GitHub Copilot - the October 7 official GitHub preview for automatic discovery of supported local providers and upcoming zero-credit, offline-capable routing to suitable local models.
VS Code Learn: Spring Boot with Copilot: Build, Debug, MCP & Playwright - the October 6 official walkthrough for building and debugging a Spring Boot app with Copilot, exposing MCP tools, and validating with Playwright.
Inside Project HydraFusion: multi-model orchestration in the GitHub Copilot | demo | GitHub Checkout - the October 2 official GitHub Checkout walkthrough for HydraFusion intent evaluation, single-model, cascade, and critique execution, with demos across Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot app, and VS Code.
VS Code Learn: Microsoft Foundry Extension in VS Code - the October 1 official walkthrough for selecting and testing models, deploying them, and wiring an agent into an application with the Foundry Toolkit in VS Code.
VS Code Learn: Extending Agents - the September 24 official walkthrough for tools and tool sets, permissions and sandboxing, MCP servers, Agent Plugins, and third-party Claude and Codex agents.
Agent Merge: Keep Your PR Moving in VS Code - the September 22 official walkthrough for experimental Agent Merge handling review feedback, failed checks, merge conflicts, and repeated build and test validation until a pull request is ready.
VS Code Learn: Agent-First Development - the September 17 official English-language walkthrough for project customizations, agent-session control and location, debug views, and building an app with agent mode.
🔴 Da ideia à especificação: prepare seu projeto para agentes no VS Code - the official Portuguese-language “From Idea to Specification” premiere, announced September 11 and scheduled for October 21, 2026, covering requirements, acceptance criteria, AGENTS.md, custom instructions, and prompt files.
🔴 Da especificação à aplicação: desenvolva e valide com agentes no VS Code - the official Portuguese-language “From Specification to Application” premiere, announced September 11 and scheduled for October 28, 2026, covering incremental agent implementation, automated checks, review, and acceptance-criteria validation.
Build Once, Run Everywhere: Agent Plugins Guide - a recent official VS Code feature walkthrough covering reusable skills, MCP servers, custom agents, and team plugin sharing.
Agent Sessions that Sync Everywhere with VS Code - the newest official Agent Host walkthrough found during the refresh, covering persistent sessions across windows, machines, and remote clients.
Visual Studio Code official YouTube videos - the channel to recheck for the newest official Copilot and VS Code agent feature walkthroughs.
Let it Cook - Agent Host Protocol in VS Code - an earlier official Agent Host Protocol video for developers building agent-powered VS Code extensions and automation workflows.