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Agentic-Agile: Why Agent Development Needs Agile (Not Just Prompts)

"A bad system will beat a good person [or agent] every time" ~Dr. William Edwards Deming (with apologies) I started vibe coding by writing prompts (often dictated into my phone), refining them with an agent in M365 Copilot, and creating handoff files to use with GitHub Copilot CLI. The...

Stop prompt injection from hijacking your agent, new security capabilities now released within Agent Framework

Prompt injection is the #1 risk on the OWASP LLM Top 10, and most agents in production today defend against it with one of two heuristics: a defensive system prompt, or a hand-rolled allowlist. Neither is deterministic. Both fail silently the day someone slips a [SYSTEM OVERRIDE] line...

Announcing Agent Governance Toolkit MCP Extensions for .NET

Announcing a Public Preview .NET package that adds policy enforcement, startup tool scanning, fallback governance, and response sanitization to MCP servers with a single builder extension.

May 14, 2026

Considering NL2SQL? Should your database really be the prompt? How can SQL MCP Server help?

Jerry Nixon

You’ve probably experienced both of these, perhaps at the same time. First, that desire to let an agent get at your data. It’s driven by simplification and better experiences for the user and for you: fewer screens, fewer queries, fewer reports, and less code overall. Second, and...

Azure SQL Dev Corner

May 14, 2026

Governance at the Speed of Agents: Microsoft Agent Framework and Agent Governance Toolkit, Better Together

Imran,

Shawn

Building powerful AI agents is only half the story, running them safely in production is the real challenge. As customers adopt Microsoft Agent Framework for agent orchestration, a clear need has emerged for robust, built-in governance. In this post, Imran Siddique from the AGT team walks...

Microsoft Agent Framework

May 14, 2026

Securing Azure apps with Aspire enterprise networking

Eric Erhardt

Network security has a funny way of showing up late. You start with a web app, an API, storage, and Key Vault. The app works. The demo works. Everyone is happy. Then the production checklist shows up: Can storage and secrets be taken off the public internet? Can this app run inside our...

Aspire Blog

May 14, 2026

May Patches for Azure DevOps Server

Gloridel Morales

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. The...

Azure DevOps Blog

May 14, 2026

From beta to stable: Announcing the Azure SDK for Rust 🎉🦀

Ronnie Geraghty

Announcing the stable release of the Azure SDK for Rust. This release includes stable libraries for Core, Identity, Key Vault (Secrets, Keys, Certificates), and Storage (Blobs, Queues).

Azure SDK Blog

May 14, 2026

VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026: Send Your Team Home With Working Code

Jim Harrer

If you lead a development team, you already know the pattern. You approve the travel, your developers attend a great conference, they come back energized, and then the work resumes exactly as it was. The ideas don't survive contact with the backlog. This July at VSLive! @ Microsoft...

Visual Studio Blog