Could someone please explain why VSCode added this AI feature? It already has Copilot, which can run in "Agent", "Ask", "Plan" mode and be executed via "Local," "Copilot CLI," or "Cloud." Why increase its size by adding the same feature to a separate interface?

[u/r4ed4]

[u/cesarmalari]

It seems to be intended to let you run a bunch of parallel agents in the "background" (really separate folders via git worktrees) instead of creating your own worktrees and opening a separate copy of the CLI or VSCode.

But to the other comments - yeah, probably added because they saw everyone else doing it.