Agent mode tools in VS Code
Agent mode can invoke tools to help accomplish a user's request - but what exactly does that mean? In this video, we'll go over what agent mode tools are and how they can be provided in VS Code.
00:00 Intro
00:16 What are tools?
00:42 Built in tools
01:24 Tools from extensions - Prompt Boost
02:25 MCP tools - Perplexity MCP server
🔗 Links:
Agent mode blogpost: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2...
Prompt Boost extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/...
Language Model Tool API docs: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/ext...
MCP demo repo: https://github.com/digitarald/mcp-fro...
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