Released April 29, 2026 — VS Code keeps leveling up, and this one's packed. You open VS Code, kick off a Copilot agent task, step away from your desk, and come back to find… it's been waiting for your approval the whole time. Frustrating, right? VS Code 1.118 is basically Microsoft reading that frustration and going, "Okay, okay, we got you." This release is laser-focused on making your Copilot workflow faster, smarter, and less tethered to your physical machine. Let's dig in. 👇 🎮 Remote Control for Copilot CLI Sessions This is the headline feature — and it genuinely changes how you run long agent tasks. Previously, if your Copilot CLI session hit a pause (waiting for an approval, asking a question), you had to physically be at your machine to respond. Not anymore. With remote control , you can monitor and steer active Copilot CLI sessions from GitHub.com or the GitHub mobile app — while the session keeps running in the background on your dev machine.…