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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 18, 2026
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Use your own language model key in VS Code
Learn how to use bring your own key (BYOK) in VS Code to add models from providers like Azure, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI, Huggingface, OpenRouter, or use a local model with Ollama, Foundry Local, and more.
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VS Code Blog
Jun 17, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.125
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.125
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VS Code Blog
Jun 17, 2026
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Intelligent Terminal 0.1.1 is here: bash support, new slash commands, and more customization
We're back with the first servicing release of Intelligent Terminal! This update brings auto error detection to Bash and WSL, a new /fix command for on-demand help, an on-the-fly /model picker, a customizable agent pane, and Windows 10 support, along with a round of bug fixes and...
Windows Command Line
Jun 17, 2026
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AI-Powered MSBuild Investigation with the Microsoft Binlog MCP Server
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Diagnose MSBuild build failures and performance issues with AI using the new Microsoft Binlog MCP Server - 15 specialized tools that let your AI assistant investigate binary logs.
.NET Blog
Jun 17, 2026
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When your agent extensions fight each other
This is the fourth article in a series about Agent Experience (AX): the practice of making AI coding agents work correctly with your technology. The series covers what you can and can't control in the agent stack, how to measure whether your extensions are helping or hurting, and how to...
Microsoft for Developers
Jun 17, 2026
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Windows stack limit checking retrospective, follow-up
Choosing the register to use to pass the desired stack allocation size.
The Old New Thing
Jun 17, 2026
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Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB Public Preview Adds Immutable Backups and Long-Term Retention
Hans,
Jay
Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB Public Preview Adds Immutable Backups and Long-Term Retention
Picture the first few hours after a serious data incident. A production application is down. Security teams are still trying to understand what happened. Application owners need to know...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jun 17, 2026
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Improving token efficiency for GitHub Copilot in VS Code
Learn how we're improving token efficiency for GitHub Copilot to reduce costs and latency for VS Code users.
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VS Code Blog
Jun 16, 2026
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Boosting Adobe Photoshop’s Performance with MSVC and SPGO
Boosting Adobe Photoshop’s Performance with MSVC and SPGO
Adobe and Microsoft worked together to improve Photoshop performance and responsiveness on Windows by combining MSVC’s peak-performance build settings with Sample-based Profile-Guided Optimization (SPGO). The collaboration...
C++ Team Blog