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Open the Black Box of Your Agent: Agent Logs and Chat Debug View in VS Code

The problem sits somewhere between your prompt and the response — a skill that never loaded, a file that never reached the context, a tool that failed silently.

Open the Black Box of Your Agent: Agent Logs and Chat Debug View in VS Code

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The problem sits somewhere between your prompt and the response — a skill that never loaded, a file that never reached the context, a tool that failed silently.

When a Copilot agent responds poorly, the instinct is to blame the model.

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The problem sits somewhere between your prompt and the response — a skill that never loaded, a file that never reached the context, a tool that failed silently. When a Copilot agent responds poorly, the instinct is to blame the model. VS Code recently shipped two tools that open […]

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When a Copilot agent responds poorly, the instinct is to blame the model. VS Code recently shipped two tools that open […]

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