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Place the cursor inside the bracket (not directly next to a bracket) and execute editor.action.smartSelect.grow until everything inside the bracket is selected. The default shortcut is Shift+Alt+Right (or Ctrl+Shift+Right on Mac).
You can shrink the selection with editor.action.smartSelect.shrink which has the default shortcut Shift+Alt+Left (or Ctrl+Shift+Left on Mac).