Visual Studio Code 1.117: Enterprise customers can use their own LLM keys
Business and enterprise users can now connect their own API keys to use LLMs via OpenRouter, Ollama, Google, OpenAI, and more in VS Code Chat.
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Visual Studio Code 1.117 is available for download. The new release of Microsoft's source code editor enhances the AI capabilities of the chat, introduces an experimental new chat rendering, and updates the “Visual Studio Code Agents” app, which is currently only available to Insider program participants.
More flexible LLM integration for business and enterprise customers
Users of GitHub Copilot in a Business or Enterprise edition can now use their API keys for language models, known as “Bring your own language model key (BYOK)”. This allows providers such as OpenRouter, Ollama, Google, or OpenAI to be integrated for using their large language models in the VS Code chat.
Disabled by default, admins can enable BYOK with the “Bring Your Own Language Model Key” policy in the Copilot policy settings. They can specify which model providers are allowed within their company. Subsequently, organization members can select models directly in VS Code from integrated providers or install extensions from providers from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.
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The advantages lie not only in the wider selection of models beyond the integrated ones but also in the fact that the integrated models are then not subject to standard rate limits. It should be noted that the “brought-in” models only affect the chat, not inline suggestions or other AI-powered features in VS Code.
Experimental and Insider Features
As an experimental feature, the VS Code chat can now render incrementally. This is intended to make chat responses appear smoother and more natural. The content appears in blocks with optional animations, such as fade, blur or slide.
Furthermore, the “Visual Studio Code Agents” app has received an update. It is still in preview status and is reserved for VS Code Insiders. The app offers an agent-native environment where parallel sessions across repositories can be executed, diffs can be viewed inline, and multi-step coding tasks can be performed. In the new release, developers can create sub-sessions from current sessions. In addition to other updates, the user experience in the app has also been revised.
The official announcement provides information on these and other new features in Visual Studio Code 1.117.
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