---
title: "Introducing Planning in Visual Studio (Public Preview)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-planning-in-visual-studio-public-preview--ltguugdqo
source_url: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/introducing-planning-in-visual-studio-public-preview/
type: article
source: "Visual Studio Blog"
published: 2025-10-22T15:56:08.660Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:56:33.676Z
tags: ["ai-assisted-development", "devtools", "github", "visual-studio"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 24
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Introducing Planning in Visual Studio (Public Preview)

**[Visual Studio Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/vs)** · 3 min read · 24 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Visual Studio 2022 17.14 introduces Planning in Chat, a public preview feature that enables GitHub Copilot to handle complex, multi-step coding tasks through structured plans. Instead of simple prompts, Copilot now creates markdown-based plans that break down large tasks, research codebases, and execute steps iteratively while adapting to new context. The feature uses transparent tool calls and hierarchical planning techniques, showing 15% higher success rates in SWE-bench testing. Plans are stored as temporary files with progress tracking, allowing developers to monitor and control each step of the AI-assisted workflow.

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