# VS Code: Open Source AI Editor

DevFeed: [VS Code: Open Source AI Editor](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/vs-code-open-source-ai-editor-4016.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/05/19/openSourceAIEditor>)

Author: The VS Code team

Published: 2025-05-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined.](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/visual-studio-code-code-editing-redefined.md>)

Topics: [GitHub Copilot](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github-copilot.md>), [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [dev-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dev-tools.md>), [Language models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/language-models.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [extension](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/extension.md>), [github-copilot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github-copilot.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [vs-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vs-code.md>)

## AI overview

VS Code plans to open-source the GitHub Copilot Chat extension under the MIT license and refactor relevant AI features into VS Code core. The article says this will improve transparency, extension development, and community security collaboration.

## Source excerpt

We will open source the GitHub Copilot Chat extension. It's the next step towards making VS Code an open source AI editor. Read the full article