Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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In this video Gwyneth introduces and demos the 5 concepts you need to understand in order to kick off your first agent session!

Follow along in this series to learn what the agent is doing, how to review changes, approval levels, different reasoning effort levels and build your first app!

➡️ Next video: Your first agent session in action: youtu.be/WcN74XvZGes
See full series playlist: https://aka.ms/vsc-learn

🔎 Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to the Agent-First Development series
00:55 Customizing your terminal
01:50 The 5 concepts you need to understand to get started
02:30 Harness
03:30 Model
04:28 Prompts
05:17 Tools
08:00 Context
09:17 In Summary
09:42 What's Next

🎙️ Featuring: Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza (https://x.com/madebygps)

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