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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 24, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.126
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.126 (Insiders)
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VS Code Blog
Jun 24, 2026
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When the model has never seen your code
This is the fifth article in a series about Agent Experience (AX): the practice of making AI coding agents work correctly with your technology. The series covers what you can and can't control in the agent stack, how to measure whether your extensions are helping or hurting, and how to...
Microsoft for Developers
Jun 23, 2026
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Streamline C++ Code Intelligence Setup in Copilot CLI
C++ developers can now bring IDE-style semantic intelligence into Copilot CLI with less setup. The C++ language server plugin supports richer code navigation, diagnostics, symbol understanding, and code changes by using the same build context your compiler does.
That build context...
C++ Team Blog
Jun 23, 2026
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Add vs Stage and Register
As previously mentioned to 'install' a package, as people think of the term, Windows actually performs two separate operations: staging and registration.
To oversimplify:
Staging puts the package content on disk. At this point the package is present, but inert and unused.
Registering...
Inside MSIX
Jun 23, 2026
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Microspeak elaborated: Isn't escrow just a release candidate by another name?
Yes, but the name is a psychological trick.
The Old New Thing
Jun 23, 2026
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Going beyond text in Microsoft 365 Copilot - Introducing SharePoint Copilot Apps
Microsoft 365 Copilot is brilliant with words - but work isn't only words. Introducing SharePoint Copilot Apps: bring rich, interactive UX components straight into the Copilot canvas, built with any JavaScript stack your team already knows. Reuse your existing SPFx investments across Copilot, SharePoint, and Teams - no new platform, no infrastructure, no lock-in.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Jun 22, 2026
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Azure SDK Release (May 2026)
Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes.
Azure SDK Blog
Jun 22, 2026
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Meet your agent harness and claw
Part 1 of Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework.
In the overview we said a "claw" is really just an agent harness: a loop around a model, wired up with tools, planning, memory, and more. In this first post we stand up that loop and give our personal...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Jun 22, 2026
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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...
Microsoft Agent Framework