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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 10, 2026
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Join us for .NET Day on Agentic Modernization Livestream
Announcing the .NET Day of Agentic Modernization Livestream
.NET Blog
Jun 10, 2026
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Spec-Driven Development: A Spec-First Approach to AI-Native Engineering
AI has made software delivery faster, but speed alone does not guarantee better outcomes. As teams adopt AI-native development, the real challenge is keeping requirements, design, implementation, and validation aligned so the final result still reflects the original intent. Spec-Driven...
Microsoft for Developers
Jun 10, 2026
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What's the opposite of ClipCursor that lets me exclude the cursor from a region?
There is no such feature, but you can just exclude it virtually.
The Old New Thing
Jun 9, 2026
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PowerToys 0.100 is here: new Shortcut Guide, Command Palette improvements and much more!
We're back with a fresh PowerToys release! This month introduces the brand-new Shortcut Guide, a major Command Palette update with the new Extension Gallery and multi-monitor Dock support, and a wave of improvements to Power Display. We've also upgraded PowerToys to .NET 10, improved...
Windows Command Line
Jun 9, 2026
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.NET 11 Preview 5 is now available!
Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 5 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, and more!
.NET Blog
Jun 9, 2026
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.NET and .NET Framework June 2026 servicing releases updates
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A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for June 2026.
.NET Blog
Jun 9, 2026
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Distributed multi-agent systems with Aspire and Microsoft Agent Framework
Learn how Aspire, Microsoft Agent Framework, and Microsoft Foundry model, run, observe, and publish a distributed multi-agent AlpineAI ski resort demo.
Aspire Blog
Jun 9, 2026
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ICYMI: Inside the Microsoft Agent Framework: How we designed a layered SDK
In case you missed it, the Command Line blog was launched last week and has a great article (by yours truly) about our SDK design philosophy with Microsoft Agent Framework. Check it out: Inside the Microsoft Agent Framework: How we designed a layered SDK
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Microsoft Agent Framework
Jun 9, 2026
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Staging Part 2 - Disk Space Optimization
"Disk space optimizations" is one of the key features of MSIX:
Disk space optimizations. With MSIX there is no duplication of files across apps and Windows manages the shared files across apps. The apps are still independent of each other so updates will not impact other apps that...
Inside MSIX