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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 5, 2026
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Rotation revisited: Avoiding having to calculate the gcd when doing cycle decomposition
Math is hard. Let's go counting!
The Old New Thing
Jun 4, 2026
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What's New in vcpkg (May 2026)
This release includes major library updates for Boost 1.91, Qt 6.11, and OpenCASCADE 8.0, along with 27 new ports and over 500 port updates.
C++ Team Blog
Jun 4, 2026
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Frameworks only matter when they force decisions
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Suzanne
Frameworks mean nothing, until they change what gets built!
In this article we discuss how Git-Ape turns architecture and governance into delivery controls on Azure because, if frameworks do not shape delivery decisions, they are just decoration.
Cloud teams do not have a...
All things Azure
Jun 4, 2026
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Aspire Multi-repo Rollout at Scale with Agentic AI
This is part 2 blog of the windows 365 integration journey with Aspire. This blog focus to show how Windows 365 scaled Aspire adoption with reliability patterns and an agentic AI rollout system across 50+ repos.
Aspire Blog
Jun 4, 2026
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Rotation revisited: Cycle decomposition in clang's libcxx
Rotating in the minimum number of steps by performing cycle decomposition.
The Old New Thing
Jun 4, 2026
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Accelerate Edge AI Development with Foundry Local
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Emma,
Inbal
Why edge AI development is still hard
AI is no longer confined to cloud experiments. Developers are increasingly expected to deliver AI inside apps, devices, and edge systems where responsiveness, privacy, resilience, and local control are essential. But building those experiences for...
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Jun 4, 2026
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How we Decide Between Keyword and Hybrid Search: 5 Enterprise Evaluation Criteria
A data-driven framework we use in enterprise deployments to decide between vector-only keyword and hybrid search, based on five measurable evaluation criteria.
ISE Developer Blog
Jun 3, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.123
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.123
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VS Code Blog
Jun 3, 2026
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Build 2026: From observability to ROI for AI agents on any framework
9 min read · June 3, 2026 · Sebastian Kohlmeier
Shipping an AI agent is the easy part. Keeping it accurate, safe, and accountable in production is where teams get stuck. Agents are non-deterministic. Their behavior shifts as models update, tools change, and traffic...
Microsoft Foundry Blog