AI coding agents are becoming a regular part of the development workflow, but the experience of working with them can still feel disconnected from the rest of your development environment.
DevSwarm 2.5.0 focuses on making that experience more natural without asking you to replace the coding agents you already use.
A dedicated interface for your coding agents
The biggest addition in 2.5.0 is DevSwarm Chat, a dedicated interface for working with locally installed terminal coding agents such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex.
The idea is simple: your agents should continue doing the work they already do well, while DevSwarm provides a better environment for interacting with and managing those sessions.
Responses stream directly into the interface as Markdown, making longer agent responses easier to read. Tool calls are presented in organized cards instead of getting lost in terminal output, and permission requests become clickable actions so you can quickly review and approve what an agent is trying to do.
Conversations also persist across reloads, so closing or refreshing DevSwarm doesn't mean losing the context of an ongoing agent session.
Your theme follows you
The other major part of this release is the way DevSwarm handles themes.
If you've already spent time configuring your development environment to look and feel the way you want, switching into another application shouldn't mean starting over.
With 2.5.0, your VS Code themes can now be applied throughout DevSwarm, including navigation, workspaces, AI tools, dialogs, settings, and the rest of the application.
Themes are also remembered independently for each repository. That means different projects can have different themes, and DevSwarm automatically restores the environment associated with the repository you're working on.
Built around the tools you already use
DevSwarm Chat isn't intended to replace your coding agents. It's designed to give them a better place to work.
You can continue using the agents and workflows you're already familiar with while getting a more structured interface for following their output, reviewing tool calls, handling permissions, and keeping track of longer-running sessions.
Together, these changes make DevSwarm feel less like another application you have to adapt to and more like an extension of the development environment you're already comfortable with.
DevSwarm 2.5.0 is available now.
Read the full release: devswarm.ai/blog/devswarm-wears-your-vscode-theme/
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