Agent Lightning v1.0

Microsoft released Agent Lightning v1.0.1, the first official version of its Agent Lightning Skill, which helps coding agents optimize other AI agents by guiding systematic improvements to prompts, tools, workflows, models, and reasoning settings while balancing accuracy, cost, latency, and reliability. The skill is available for installation via GitHub for Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot, and the release also enhances CI, packaging, release automation, documentation, and benchmark reporting.

Agent Lightning v1.0.1 marks the first official release of the Agent Lightning Skill, which helps coding agents optimize other AI agents. Provide an editable agent and a benchmark, and the skill guides systematic improvements to prompts, tools, workflows, models, and reasoning settings—balancing accuracy, cost, latency, and reliability through measured iteration. Install it for Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot: gh skill install microsoft/agent-lightning agent-lightning --agent <agent This release also strengthens CI, packaging, release automation, documentation, and benchmark reporting.