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title: "Visual Studio 2026–From plan mode to plan agent"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/visual-studio-2026-from-plan-mode-to-plan-agent-8ihqbhtzg
source_url: https://bartwullems.blogspot.com/2026/06/visual-studio-2026from-plan-mode-to.html
type: article
source: "The Art of Simplicity"
published: 2026-06-04T07:54:31.995Z
updated: 2026-06-18T21:22:32.030Z
tags: ["github", "visual-studio", "ai-assisted-development", "agentic-ai"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Visual Studio 2026–From plan mode to plan agent

**[The Art of Simplicity](https://daily.dev/sources/bartwullems)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Visual Studio's 'plan mode' has evolved into a dedicated Plan agent in Copilot Chat, similar to the existing VSCode feature. Instead of jumping straight to code, the Plan agent reads your codebase read-only, asks clarifying questions, and produces a detailed markdown implementation plan saved to `.copilot/plans/` in your repo. You can review, edit, and share the plan before hitting 'Implement plan', at which point Copilot switches to Agent mode and executes the steps. The author argues this deliberate planning checkpoint prevents AI agents from going down the wrong path and makes AI-assisted work reviewable and auditable by teammates.

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