# Code review with Copilot in VS Code

URL: https://codepanel.ai/agents/vs-code

Copilot in VS Code, GitHub's coding agent, in CodePanel's review loop: it connects through MCP and a setup prompt, reads AGENTS.md and answers every finding.

Copilot in VS Code is GitHub's coding agent, in VS Code's Chat view and the Agents window in a browser, for remote sessions. With CodePanel it is the author on the other side of the review: after it pushes, it reads the panel's findings on that commit over MCP, fixes or disputes each one with evidence, and rates every finding. It reads AGENTS.md, .github/copilot-instructions.md, .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md and CLAUDE.md (in the Local harness), and the setup prompt writes the loop into AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.

## How Copilot in VS Code connects

Copilot in VS Code connects through an MCP server entry and the repository setup prompt, pasted into its agent mode. The steps are in [VS Code and GitHub Copilot](/docs/vs-code).

## Copilot in VS Code features for the review loop

| Feature | What the docs say | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Maker | GitHub | [docs.github.com](https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/get-started/about-github-copilot) |
| Runs in | VS Code's Chat view and the Agents window in a browser, for remote sessions | [code.visualstudio.com](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/overview), [page 2](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/run/remote-agent-sessions) |
| MCP | HTTP servers with OAuth, falling back to SSE, in `.vscode/mcp.json` or added with `code --add-mcp` | [code.visualstudio.com](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/reference/mcp-configuration), [page 2](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/mcp-servers) |
| Hooks | Agent hooks, in preview; `Stop` fires when the agent is about to stop | [code.visualstudio.com](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/reference/hooks-reference), [page 2](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/hooks) |
| Rules files | [`AGENTS.md`](/agents/files/agents-md), [`.github/copilot-instructions.md`](/agents/files/copilot-instructions), `.github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md`, [`CLAUDE.md`](/agents/files/claude-md) (in the Local harness) | [code.visualstudio.com](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/custom-instructions) |
| Models | Models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Moonshot AI and xAI, plus your own key for more, including local models. Prices: [OpenAI](/models/openai), [Anthropic](/models/anthropic), [Google](/models/google), [xAI](/models/xai), [Moonshot](/models/moonshot). | [code.visualstudio.com](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/language-models), [page 2](https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/supported-models) |

Each row was checked on 2026-10-17 against the maker's docs it cites. A feature with no row is one those docs don't describe.