The GitLab Duo Agent Platform for IDEs has a connection to JetBrains IDEs and VS Code, can handle MCP and offers agentic chat and agent flows.

GitLab's strategy is to integrate AI more closely into the development platform. The Duo Agent Platform in Visual Studio is now available as a beta.

DevOps specialist GitLab has officially taken over the control of a GitLab extension for Microsoft's open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor.