Tooling7d ago
Android Studio Rabbit 2 goes stable with Bring Your Own Agent: 40+ coding agents including Claude Agent, Codex and Antigravity via the open ACP
On Oct 28, the day of Android Dev Summit, Google shipped Android Studio Rabbit 2 (2026.2.2) to the stable channel. The headline change is that Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA) moves from its September Canary preview to a stable feature: developers can plug any Agent Client Protocol (ACP) compatible coding agent into the IDE agent window. Google says more than 40 are available, including Anthropic Claude Agent, OpenAI Codex, JetBrains Junie and Google Antigravity, and users can sign in with personal or enterprise plans. The release also adds an agent skills manager, AI Change Review and agent-assisted LeakCanary fixes.
Tooling14d ago
VS Code 1.143 makes the Copilot SDK-based harness the default, adds multi-model comparison and on-device MAI Code 1.1 Flash
Microsoft shipped Visual Studio Code 1.143. The Copilot harness, built on the Copilot SDK, is now the default for new sessions and works across the editor and Agents window. A Compare Models preview runs several models on one task with an optional Judge model, an experimental mode runs MAI Code 1.1 Flash on a local NVIDIA GPU, and large chats open much faster.
Tooling14d ago
VS Code Preview Introduces Canvases: Shared Workspaces for Developers and Coding Agents
The Microsoft VS Code team announced Canvases in VS Code Preview (v1.142), introducing dedicated shared visual workspaces connecting developers with autonomous coding agents. Addressing the severe UX limitations of cramped sidebar chat windows—where complex multi-file architectural modifications and agent diffs become hard to track—Canvases provides an expansive, interactive infinite-canvas whiteboard. Developers and agents (such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Cline) can collaboratively organize system flowcharts, live interactive code diffs, execution traces, and unit test rollouts side by side.
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