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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 2, 2026
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From Intent to Insight: AI Meets Azure Cosmos DB in VS Code (Public Preview)
The Problem Every Developer Knows Too Well
You're building a feature. You know exactly what data you need all orders from the last week over $500, grouped by region. The logic is clear in your head. But between you and that data sits a query language, a documentation tab (or three),...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jun 2, 2026
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Azure Cosmos DB Agent Kit now battle tested for GA
Back in January, we shipped the Azure Cosmos DB Agent kit in preview with 45 rules and a hypothesis: if we package Azure Cosmos DB expertise into a format that AI coding agents understand, developers will stop making the same expensive mistakes. That hypothesis held up. What surprised us...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jun 2, 2026
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Work IQ: Production‑ready intelligence for every agent
Work IQ provides a workplace intelligence layer that enables agents to access and reason over organizational data, context, and tools, continuously building a semantic understanding across Microsoft 365 and external systems with built-in, permission-aware governance.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Jun 2, 2026
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Build collaborative agents where work happens
At Microsoft Build 2026, we're announcing new investments to help your agents become teammates in everyday work, from new interaction patterns to streamlined tooling.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Jun 2, 2026
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Azure DocumentDB Migration Extension for VS Code Is Now Generally Available
We are happy to share that online migration in the Azure DocumentDB Migration extension for VS Code is now Generally Available. Back in November 2025, we launched the Public Preview and since then, many customers have put it through its paces with all kinds of MongoDB workloads. Based on...
Azure DocumentDB Blog
Jun 2, 2026
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Announced at MS Build 2026: Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit, Semantic Reranking, Global Secondary Indexes, and more!
Microsoft Build 2026 has officially started and we’re excited to announce new capabilities for Azure Cosmos DB! We’ve launched new features to help developers build AI-powered applications and agents more easily, improve application resilience, and accelerate developer...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jun 2, 2026
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Azure DevOps and GitHub: Journeying into the AI Era
AI is changing how software gets planned, built, and reviewed. As teams adopt agentic development, the platform underneath those workflows matters more. They need tools that bring planning, coding, security, and collaboration together—and can keep pace with how development is...
Azure DevOps Blog
Jun 2, 2026
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Frontier Tuning: Teaching AI to work the way you do
We're announcing the private preview of Frontier Tuning, a new approach to making AI work the way your business does by applying reinforcement learning inside your compliance boundary with your own data, processes, and conventions.
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Jun 2, 2026
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A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry
Learn a practical model lifecycle for Microsoft Foundry: select the right model, evaluate quality, optimize cost, operate safely, and improve as production needs change.
Microsoft Foundry Blog