As of late 2025 and early 2026, VS Code began defaulting to this unified behavior. However, if you experience stability issues, performance regressions, or UI glitches during this rollout, you can manually toggle the feature:
: If you are on an older version or participating in early testing (such as VS Code Insiders), ensure the setting is checked to access the latest unified features. Future Outlook chat.extensionunification.enabled