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mediumVisualStudioPlan agentnew featurevs_blog · May 21, 2026

Plan Before You Build: Introducing the Plan agent in Visual Studio

Visual Studio now introduces a Plan agent that helps developers better manage AI-assisted coding by allowing them to plan their approach before implementation, reducing misaligned code changes. This enhancement improves developer productivity and reduces rework when using AI-powered tools like Copilot.

You ask Copilot to tackle something big, it gets to work, and a dozen file changes later you realize you had a completely different approach in mind. The code isn’t wrong… it just isn’t what you were going for. Last year, we introduced planning as a feature in Agent mode to help with exactly this. [
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