AI Subagents Coming Soon to Visual Studio Copilot, Mirroring VS Code Feature

Summary

Microsoft's principal product manager for Visual Studio, Mads Kristensen, announced that AI subagents are "coming soon" to Visual Studio Copilot, bringing to the flagship Windows IDE a capability already shipping in VS Code. Subagents are independent AI agents that handle focused subtasks within a broader workflow and report results back to the orchestrating agent — enabling context isolation, parallel execution, and specialized custom agents for research, security review, performance analysis,