Alongside macOS 26.5 and its counterparts, Apple yesterday released Xcode 26.5, with several bug fixes and improvements. Two of these improvements make agentic coding workflows even smarter. Here are the details.
Xcode 26.5 adds two useful Coding Intelligence features
Apple released Xcode 26.5 yesterday, with two features that build on the agentic coding capabilities introduced with Xcode 26.3.
Since then, developers have been able to plug AI tools such as OpenAI’s Codex or Anthropic’s Claude Agent directly into Xcode to help with tasks ranging from writing boilerplate code to updating the entire project based on its own documentation, file structure, and more.
This followed a broader shift toward AI-powered coding, in which developers either work alongside AI tools or delegate the actual coding to them, then review and adjust the results as needed.
A few days ago, during Airbnb’s Q1 2026 earnings call, the company revealed that 60% of its new code is now written by AI. That came after Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that 75% of the company’s code was AI-generated, up from 50% last fall.
Back to Xcode 26.5, the update introduced two features that will make agentic coding easier and more useful. From the Xcode 26.5 release notes:
Coding Intelligence
New Features
- Messages can now be queued in the coding assistant. (174563016)
- Agents can now ask clarifying questions to provide more accurate results. (175182375)
That means developers no longer need to wait for the assistant to finish generating a response before lining up another message. Agents, meanwhile, can now ask clarifying questions before moving ahead with a task, which Apple says should help them provide more accurate results.
In practice, both features are extremely useful for sending the agent down a more precise path from the start and for longer periods, while minimizing the chance that the result will differ from what the developer had in mind.
These Coding Intelligence features join other additions in Xcode 26.5, including new StoreKit Testing support that lets developers simulate Apple’s new monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment.
To see everything new with Xcode 26.5, follow this link.
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