v0.43.2026040601

Changes:

• #4989: fix: discover AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md at workspace roots
• #4974: fix: emit agent instructions in CopilotCLI customization provider
• #4988: Fix: only send tool_choice when tools are present in summarization
• #4985: nes: fix: use speculativeRequestDelay for cached speculative results
• #4904: nes: patch: fix: don't yield malformed edits on fetch fail/cancellation
• #4930: Update dependencies and improve session initialization in Copilot CLI
• #4967: make sure we only flush the confirmed tool call
• #4981: Fix background summarization fallback gaps and improve summarization budget
• #4791: add prommptC for vsc models and refine hash set with model family nam…
• #4973: Bump electron from 39.8.4 to 39.8.5

See More

• #4968: chatSessions: add backward compat guards for hooks and plugins APIs
• #4964: chatSessionsProvider: add groupKeys and badges for instructions in CLI customization provider
• #4966: Remove forceExtendedThinking experiment config
• #4962: feat: wire plugins through CopilotCLI customization provider
• #4950: Add explicit session type context for skills
• #4958: Update Anthropic SDK packages (@anthropic-ai/sdk 0.81.0→0.82.0, @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk 0.2.81→0.2.91)

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v0.43.2026040304

Changes:

• #4952: feat: wire hooks through CopilotCLI customization provider
• #4956: Inline summarization: summarize within the agent loop for maximum prompt cache hits
• #4960: Sessions - provide additional context for the merge skill

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v0.43.2026040303

Changes:

• #4955: Bump electron from 37.8.0 to 39.8.4
• #4943: Add a new fetchedValue concept
• #4959: Address some PR comments from #4943
• #4949: edits: exp setup for improvements to multi sr
• #4945: fix: merge SDK anthropic-beta headers with base endpoint betas
• #4953: Prevent repeated foreground summarization after failure
• #4951: Updates to model

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v0.43.2026040301

Changes:

• #4946: Add githubMcpServer.channel setting for MCP Insiders mode
• #4944: add isSystemInitiated and relevant changes
• #4948: Aligning more terms and UI labels for new codebase index
• #4943: Add a new fetchedValue concept
• #4925: improve ChatSessionCustomizationProvider implementation
• #4942: Move docs/prompts.md to scoped .instructions.md file
• #4941: Make optimized Anthropic prompts the defaults for Claude 4.6
• #4928: update copilot-api and send event_content
• #4939: Sessions - update context keys

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v0.43.2026040204

Changes:

• #4917: Bump @anthropic-ai/sdk from 0.80.0 to 0.81.0
• #4915: Bump @anthropic-ai/sdk from 0.80.0 to 0.81.0 in /chat-lib
• #4936: Bump lodash from 4.17.23 to 4.18.1
• #4934: Sessions - scaffold the new actions
• #4935: Rework status reporting for codebase index
• #4929: Agent Debug logging: detect mode changes, fix tools timing, add tool…
• #4932: feat: add updateArtifacts method to handle exit plan mode requests

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v0.43.2026040203

Revert "chore: bump @vscode/test-web and fix path-to-regexp / brace-e…

v0.43.2026040202

Revert "chore: bump @vscode/test-web and fix path-to-regexp / brace-e…

v0.42.3

Changes:

Bugs:

• #4913: Revert: Remove transcript line count from compaction summary

Others:

• #4922: bump v0.42.3
• #4811: Add transcript line count to compaction summary

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v0.43.2026040102

Bump VS Code engine (#4902)

* Bump VS Code engine

* lock file

v0.43.2026040101

Troubleshooting: Enrich chat debug JSONL logs (#4887)

* Enrich chat debug JSONL logs

* feedback update

* Feedback update2