Microsoft is running a four-part live series, "From Model to Agent: The Agent Framework Harness, Live in C#," streaming on the .NET YouTube channel and Microsoft Reactor on four consecutive Thursdays …
A developer's ski resort demo compared two multi-agent architectures — specialist agents invoked via Agent-to-Agent (A2A) versus distributed Agent Skills and typed tools served over Model Context Prot…
A Microsoft developer's evaluation of GPT-5.6 Luna's knowledge of Dev Proxy versions was invalidated because the coding agent located a local Dev Proxy installation and source checkout on the host mac…
GitHub released the GitHub Copilot SDK, which lets developers embed the runtime behind Copilot CLI into their own applications, and published Interview Coach, a .NET sample that uses the SDK to run a …
A comparison of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Sonnet 4.6 across three code upgrade scenarios in GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code on Windows found Astra cost 2.4x to 5.6x more per run while deliverin…
Anthropic has made five Claude capabilities—Structured outputs, Web search, Web fetch, MCP connector, and Tool search—available on deployments hosted on Azure in Microsoft Foundry, eliminating the tra…
Microsoft announced Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) in Preview for Visual Studio, enabled by default across Community, Professional, and Enterprise SKUs, allowing developers to connect to Microsoft Foundr…
Microsoft has launched the Azure SQL Database Foundations series, four videos covering Hyperscale database setup, migration, optimization, and AI integration, each with accompanying GitHub repos. The …
Anthropic's 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report reveals that engineers use AI in roughly 60% of their work but can fully delegate only 0–20% of tasks, highlighting the need for AI agents to integrate wi…
GitHub Copilot CLI, Microsoft's command-line AI agent, can automate C++ dependency management and project setup, as demonstrated in a Pure Virtual C++ 2026 session where it built a CMake-based CLI app…
Microsoft is launching The Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent's Playbook, a four-part livestream series starting August 18, 2025, to help developers and technical teams build, extend, ground, and evaluate de…
Microsoft has released the Agent Framework Harness, a stable, batteries-included runtime for building agents in Python and .NET that provides loop, planning, memory, context management, approvals, and…
Building effective agent experience (AX) evaluations requires six structural components—representative prompts, accurate and unambiguous criteria, multiple runs, and clean and representative environme…
GitHub announced a free virtual training event, "Let's Learn GitHub Copilot App," scheduled for July 16, to teach developers and technical professionals how to use the new agent-driven development des…
A developer's agent evaluation results can vary across machines due to hidden environmental variables like operating system and shell, which influence the agent's command fluency, error recovery, and …
Public AI benchmarks like SWE-bench measure performance on popular open-source repositories but fail to predict how models will perform on proprietary codebases, team-specific conventions, and real-wo…
Microsoft announced the public preview of WSL containers at Build 2026, enabling developers to run Linux containers natively on Windows without third-party tools. The feature includes a new CLI (wslc.…
Microsoft released a setup LSP skill for the C++ language server plugin in Copilot CLI, enabling developers to generate compile_commands.json for CMake, MSBuild, and custom build systems. The skill si…
Microsoft found that AI coding agents ignore documentation tips because they form plans before reading. To redirect agents, developers must explicitly state that the agent's current plan will fail, no…
Microsoft is transforming its software development lifecycle into an agentic platform where AI agents collaborate across planning, coding, security, and operations. The company reports that 62% of its…