2026-02-11
- Improve authentication error messages in prompt mode
- Quota exceeded error links to Copilot settings with actionable guidance
- Theme picker shows live preview of diffs and markdown, adds colorblind and tritanopia theme variants
- Add
/on-airmode to hide model names and quota details for streaming - Show agent type and description in read_agent timeline entries
/tasksshows Recent Activity for background agents- Add experimental alternate screen buffer mode: --alt-screen
- Interactive programs that query terminal state work in shell
- Subagents fall back to session model when default model blocked by policy
- Expose session context in session.list SDK response
- Keyboard shortcut hints display consistently with bold styling throughout the CLI
- Add
tools.listRPC to query available built-in tools - Streaming responses automatically retry when interrupted by server errors
- Add option to approve tool permissions permanently for a location
- Add
/instructionscommand to view and toggle custom instruction files - Ctrl-b and ctrl-f cursor movement now available on all platforms
- Ctrl+d now favors deleting character after cursor, with queueing moved to ctrl+q (or ctrl+enter)
- Editing MCP servers shows existing configuration values
--resumecreates new sessions with provided UUID- Add workspace-local MCP configuration via
.vscode/mcp.json - Skill changes from
/skillscommands take effect immediately - /session usage string only shows available subcommands
- Slash commands which take prompts now work when immediately followed by a new-line
- Remove unintended characters from status bar
- Autopilot mode works with custom agents that specify explicit tools
- Updated node-pty to fix file descriptor leaks
- Windows slash flags (e.g.,
dir /B) are no longer treated as file paths - Diff mode no longer flickers when navigating files
- /mcp disable and /mcp enable show clear error when server name doesn't exist
- MCP servers using Microsoft OAuth configure automatically without manual client ID setup
- Tab cycles modes forward, Shift+Tab backward; shell is now a mode
- Ctrl+P runs slash commands while preserving input (replaces Ctrl+X → /)
- Terminal title works on all TTY terminals, not just select few
- Help text notes auto-update is disabled in CI environments by default
- Terminal tab shows session title when idle
- ask_user tool asks one question at a time for clearer interaction