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Tommi Somersuo
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MCP Apps is getting support from many sides now Anthropic, OpenAI, vscode… interesting to see how gen-ui and things like AG-UI/CopilotKit bring to table
SEP-1865: MCP Apps - Interactive User Interfaces for MCP by idosal · Pull Request #1865 · modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol
SEP-1865: MCP Apps - Interactive User Interfaces for MCP Track: Extensions Authors: Ido Salomon, Liad Yosef, Olivier Chafik, Jerome Swannack, Jonathan Hefner, Anton Pidkuiko, Nick Cooper, Bryan Ash...
github.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Reposted by Tommi Somersuo
Today, the MCP community is announcing MCP Apps, the first official MCP extension. VS Code is the first major AI code editor with full MCP Apps support.

With MCP Apps, tool calls can now return interactive UI components that render directly in the conversation. Learn more: aka.ms/MCPApps/Blog
Giving Agents a Visual Voice: MCP Apps Support in VS Code
VS Code now supports MCP Apps, enabling AI agents to display interactive UIs for richer developer workflows.
code.visualstudio.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:25 PM
vscode Github Copilot: SwitchAgentTool
”tool to switch to a different agent mode, currently supporting only the 'Plan' agent. This allows for better handling of complex tasks that require careful planning.”

github.com/microsoft/vs...
Add switch agent tool by sbatten · Pull Request #3144 · microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat
Introduce a new tool to switch to a different agent mode, currently supporting only the 'Plan' agent. This allows for better handling of complex tasks that require careful planning.
github.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Claude Code 2.1.19 adds env setting to enable new Tasks mode (switching from Todo):

”Added env var CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_TASKS, set to false to keep the old system temporarily”
January 24, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Microsoft is increasingly adopting Claude Code
www.theverge.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Introducing FastMCP 3.0 🚀
Move fast and make things.
www.jlowin.dev
January 21, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Reposted by Tommi Somersuo
This is interesting for a lot of reasons, including explaining how model personality drift happens (& a way to mitigate that) as well as more exploration into the “Assistant” the key personality of basically every AI you work with, but which is not well understood. www.anthropic.com/research/ass...
The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:20 AM