VS Code Open Source AI Editor

VS Code: Open Source AI Editor May 19th, 2025 by the VS Code team We believe that the future of code editors should be open and powered by AI. For the last decade, VS Code has been one of the most successful OSS projects on GitHub. We are grateful for our vibrant community of contributors and users who choose VS Code because it is open source. As AI becomes core to the developer experience in VS Code, we intend to stay true to our founding development principles: open, collaborative, and community-driven. We will open source the code in the GitHub Copilot Chat extension under the MIT license, then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core. This is the next and logical step for us in making VS Code an open source AI editor. It’s a reflection that AI-powered tools are core to how we write code; a reaffirmation of our belief that working in the open leads to a better product for our users and fosters a diverse ecosystem of extensions.

A screenshot of a VS Code team announcement titled “VS Code: Open Source AI Editor.” The article says that GitHub Copilot Chat will be open-sourced and its components refactored into VS Code core. The joke is sarcastic: the uploader reacts to Microsoft adding more AI-generated content and tools to the editor while presenting it as a commitment to open source and community values.

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