--- title: Don't know what to do while your agents work? The VS... description: VS Code introduced an experimental virtual pet feature that sits above the chat input box, reacting to agent activity while coding agents handle the actual... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-know-what-to-do-while-your-agents-work-the-vs-code-team-has-an-answer--hbq5ddqpt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Don't know what to do while your agents work? The VS Code team has an answer. | daily.dev og:description: VS Code introduced an experimental virtual pet feature that sits above the chat input box, reacting to agent activity while coding agents handle the actual... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-know-what-to-do-while-your-agents-work-the-vs-code-team-has-an-answer--hbq5ddqpt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HbQ5dDQPT.png og:image:alt: Don't know what to do while your agents work? The VS Code team has an answer. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Don't know what to do while your agents work? The VS Code team has an answer. **[The Art of Simplicity](https://daily.dev/sources/bartwullems)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary VS Code introduced an experimental virtual pet feature that sits above the chat input box, reacting to agent activity while coding agents handle the actual work. The pet can be shown or hidden via the /vscode-pet command, dragged, flicked, made to hop, and even thrown against a wall with keyboard shortcuts. It's accessible via keyboard navigation, tracks achievements through a context menu, and its position persists across sessions and VS Code restarts. Only one pet can appear at a time, even with multiple parallel agent sessions running. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I show or hide the pet in VS Code's agent chat? Type /vscode-pet in the chat input box to toggle the pet's visibility. Alternatively, in the new-session view of the Agents window, right-click outside the input box and select Pet (/vscode-pet) from the menu. The feature is marked experimental, so it may change or be removed in future versions. _Developers exploring new VS Code agent features can keep track of experimental updates like this via daily.dev._ ### What can you do with the VS Code pet feature? You can select it to trigger a reaction, drag it around the chat and drop it anywhere, flick it to throw it, hop it with Left and Right arrow keys, or hold Shift with an arrow key to throw it at a wall. Right-clicking (or Shift+F10) opens a context menu to view achievements, send it on a run, resize it, or switch between Stable and Insiders colors. _Anyone experimenting with VS Code's agent tooling can follow small UX additions like this through daily.dev._ ### Does the VS Code pet persist across multiple chat sessions or windows? Only one pet appears at a time in the active chat surface, but its position and size are shared across chats and windows and persist after restarting VS Code. Parallel agent sessions are supported in VS Code, but parallel pets are not. _Developers tracking how VS Code evolves its agent chat UI can stay current via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [What Is Codex Pet](https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-codex-pet-23jkvp9ff) · C\# Corner · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [I tried VS Code's answer to Claude Code, Codex, and Google Antigravity and it blew my mind](https://daily.dev/posts/i-tried-vs-code-s-answer-to-claude-code-codex-and-google-antigravity-and-it-blew-my-mind-loiqcu7vg) · XDA Developers · 6 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#vscode](https://daily.dev/tags/vscode) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-know-what-to-do-while-your-agents-work-the-vs-code-team-has-an-answer--hbq5ddqpt) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Don't know what to do while your agents work? 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