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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 15, 2026
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GitHub Copilot for JetBrains is moving to Copilot CLI as the default agent harness
Copilot CLI is becoming the default agent harness in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains, and our local harness will be deprecated.
This change provides greater consistency across all GitHub Copilot surfaces and is an important step toward faster feature parity and higher-quality results in...
Microsoft for Java Developers
Jun 15, 2026
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Make Visual Studio look the way you want
Themes are personal. Some of us live in dark mode, some swear by high contrast, and some of us have very strong opinions about that one shade of blue from years ago. The new themes in Visual Studio 2026 are built on Fluent, which gives us a much more consistent and accessible foundation,...
Visual Studio Blog
Jun 15, 2026
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The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation
Offensive content in the eyes of a software engineer.
The Old New Thing
Jun 12, 2026
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GitHub Copilot modernization for C++ is out of preview
GitHub Copilot modernization for C++ is out of preview as of Visual Studio 2026, helping you upgrade your MSVC Build Tools with an AI-guided workflow.
C++ Team Blog
Jun 12, 2026
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How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency?
The thread pool is designed for throughput, not latency.
The Old New Thing
Jun 12, 2026
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Orchestration Patterns for Multi-Agent Systems: Performance and Trade-offs
Real-world lessons from evolving a production chatbot into a coordinator-based multi-agent architecture, including performance trade-offs for enterprise-scale agent reuse.
ISE Developer Blog
Jun 11, 2026
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MSVC Build Tools Preview updates - June 2026
Try the latest updates to MSVC Build Tools Preview
C++ Team Blog
Jun 11, 2026
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June Patches for Azure DevOps Server
We are releasing new patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay up to date with the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server.
The most recent release, Azure DevOps Server, is available on the download page.
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Azure DevOps Blog
Jun 11, 2026
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Migrating EWS notifications to Microsoft Graph
Migrating from the Exchange Web Services (EWS) notification framework, which supports push, pull, and streaming notification types — to the Microsoft Graph subscription model represents a fundamental transition toward a unified, stateless, and event-driven framework.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog