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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 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
Developers are...
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
Jun 9, 2026
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Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos
Dan,
Andrew
🚨 Attention: We are accepting a final round of preview requests, with those organizations scheduled for enablement beginning the second week of July.
Requests submitted after July 3 will not be accepted into the preview program.
Over the last several...
Azure DevOps Blog
Jun 8, 2026
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Microsoft Build 2026 recap: vision, launches, and top sessions
Catch up on Microsoft Build 2026 with the vision lead-off, top developer announcements, and must-watch sessions across the Microsoft developer ecosystem.
Microsoft for Developers
Jun 8, 2026
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.NET at Microsoft Build 2026: Must watch sessions
Catch up on all the .NET sessions from Microsoft Build 2026 covering .NET 11, union types in C#, AI building blocks, the agentic web, .NET MAUI, and more!
.NET Blog
Jun 8, 2026
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Enterprise Live Migrations: Moving from Azure DevOps Repo to GitHub with minimal disruption
Soo,
Bhuvan
Over the last several years, we’ve encouraged customers to move their repositories from Azure Repos to GitHub to take advantage of the latest AI-powered and agentic development experiences.
For many enterprise teams, however, migrating at scale comes with real constraints. Traditional...
Azure DevOps Blog
Jun 8, 2026
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Rotation revisited: Shuffling more than three blocks, and other small notes
Generalizing the shuffle to arbitrary numbers of blocks.
The Old New Thing