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Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework
What does it take to build your own "claw" - a capable, CLI-style agent that can plan, use tools, remember things, and safely act on your behalf? Coding agents and assistants like these can feel like magic, but underneath they are an agent harness: a loop around a language model wired up...
Read moreClick to read more about this postIn memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
Read moreClick to read more about this postStop overloading your skills
You built a skill for your technology. API references, authentication flows, SDK patterns, error handling, version info, all packed into one skill. The agent calls it, gets all that context, and generates code. The kicker? You've just wasted a lot of tokens.
It already knows
Models have...
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Jun 29, 2026
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WSL container is now available for public preview
At Microsoft Build 2026, we introduced WSL containers, bringing Linux container development directly into Windows through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Containers have become a foundational part of modern development - from cloud-native applications and AI workloads to testing...
Windows Command Line
Jun 29, 2026
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Automating your Visual Studio extension builds with GitHub Actions
If you’re building and maintaining Visual Studio extensions, you’ve probably ended up with some sort of build and publishing workflow - whether it’s manual, scripted, or stitched together over time.
This post is for extension authors who want a simple, repeatable way to build,...
Visual Studio Blog
Jun 29, 2026
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Agent Harness: Working with your data, safely
Part 2 of Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework.
In Part 1 we stood up a harness and gave our personal finance assistant its first abilities: a custom tool, web search, and planning. It can talk about the markets - but it can't yet touch your data, and...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Jun 29, 2026
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Remote Event Receivers are retiring: move to SharePoint webhooks before July 1, 2027
Remote Event Receivers in SharePoint Online are retiring. Starting July 1, 2027, all remote event receivers will stop firing events, including those registered using Microsoft Entra applications.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Jun 29, 2026
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Spring AI 2.0 is GA: Vector Search, Memory, and Agents on Azure Cosmos DB
The wait is over. Spring AI 2.0 is generally available, and Azure Cosmos DB is right there with it. With this release, Spring AI graduates into a mature, production-ready framework for building AI applications in Java, and Azure Cosmos DB ships dedicated, vendor-maintained...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jun 26, 2026
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Azure Developer CLI (azd) - May and June 2026
A combined May and June recap. A new azd tool command group, the cross-platform azd exec runner, safer multi-layer provisioning, an interactive Ctrl+C cancel prompt, Go support for Azure Functions, self-contained extension bundles, per-tenant subscription filters, and a long list of correctness fixes for parallel Container Apps deploys and authentication.
Azure SDK Blog
Jun 26, 2026
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The case of the DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded, part 2
Tying two bugs together.
The Old New Thing
Jun 26, 2026
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Passing Context Between Agents in Multi-Agent A2A Systems
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How we solved the challenge of passing conversational context between independently deployed agents using the A2A protocol's embedded context pattern, keeping domain agents stateless and secure.
ISE Developer Blog
Jun 25, 2026
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Save the Date: Pure Virtual C++ 2026
Pure Virtual C++ is back for its 7th year! Join us on July 21 for a free, one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community.
C++ Team Blog