This document outlines the planned features and improvements for Copilot Handoff.
✅ Core session tracking
✅ Smart notifications
✅ Context export system
✅ Status bar integration
✅ Configurable settings
Estimated: Q1 2026
- Customizable export templates
- Export history tracking
- Quick export from status bar
- Export format preferences (JSON, plain text)
- Auto-export on threshold
Estimated: Q2 2026
- Direct Copilot Chat API integration
- Per-chat-session tracking (when API available)
- Chat participant detection
- Session metadata in exports
Estimated: Q2 2026
- Shared session insights
- Team handoff templates
- Export sharing capabilities
- Collaboration statistics
Estimated: Q3 2026
- All core features stable
- Comprehensive documentation
- Video tutorials
- Multi-language support
- Performance optimizations
These features are under consideration but not yet scheduled:
- Session duration analytics dashboard
- Usage patterns and trends
- Productivity metrics
- Best practices suggestions
- AI-powered handoff recommendations
- Smart context summarization
- Integration with other AI tools
- Custom notification rules
- Keyboard shortcuts
- VS Code for Web support
- VS Codespaces integration
- Remote development improvements
We want to hear from you! Vote on features:
- Check open feature requests
- 👍 Vote on features you'd like to see
- 💬 Comment with your use cases
- 🆕 Suggest new features
Want to help build these features?
- Check the good first issue label
- Read CONTRIBUTING.md
- Join GitHub Discussions
- Submit a Pull Request
- Timelines are estimates and subject to change
- Features depend on VS Code API availability
- Community feedback influences priorities
- Security and stability are top priorities
Last Updated: January 26, 2026