September 22, 2025
Agent Tabs: A Better UI for Modern Agents
Agents aren’t just chat anymore—they’ve grown into full systems that make tool calls, manage tasks, edit files, and update their own memories. As agents scale to handle more complexity, their interfaces need to scale too.
We’ve redesigned the experience with Agent Tabs:
- Tabs for Thread, Tasks, and Edits now live in the chat header.
- By using the full vertical space, each panel gives you both maximum readability and a dedicated view that helps you stay focused on the stage of the workflow you’re in.
- Cleaner ergonomics for navigating multi-step agent workflows.
This update trades horizontal header space for dramatically better visibility, so you can work with your agent like the full-fledged system it has become.

Available in VS Code v0.549.1+. IntelliJ support coming soon!