VS Code 1.128 is out, and it carries a change that should interest Claude users in particular: you can now run multiple chats within a single Claude agent-host session — right inside the Agents window.
What changes
Until now the relationship was fairly rigid: one session, one conversation thread. If you wanted to work a second topic in parallel, it landed in its own top-level session. The result was quickly a pile of scattered sessions you’d lose track of.
With 1.128, related conversations stay bundled inside one session. You can keep several chat threads open side by side without them fragmenting into separate sessions. It sounds like a small thing — but in daily use it’s exactly the friction point where you used to lose time.
Why it’s more than cosmetic
The real value is in the working model. Anyone using a coding agent rarely has just one thing open: one thread refactors a module, the second hunts a bug, the third writes tests. When those threads stay together in one session instead of spreading across the whole window, the context stays together — and so does your head.
It also fits a bigger trend in Claude Code: background tasks that survive a session restart, clickable PR links, more robust long runs. All small steps in the same direction — turning the agent from a chat window into an actual workspace.
My take
I like updates like this. No big stage, no new model announcement — just a sensible reduction in friction for people who work with the agent all day. It’s exactly these unglamorous improvements that ultimately decide whether a tool feels good to use.
If you use VS Code as a host for Claude, update and try the multi-chat handling. It won’t change the world — but it clears away exactly the kind of clutter that adds up over a working day.
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