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Awesome GitHub Copilot just got a website, and a learning hub, and plugins!

Back in July, we launched the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo with a simple goal: give the community a place to share custom instructions, prompts, and chat modes to customize the AI responses from GitHub Copilot. We were hoping for maybe one community contribution per...

When Infrastructure Scales But Understanding Doesn't

We all know this, even if we don't like to admit it: modern infrastructure can scale infinitely, but human understanding doesn't. We've all seen it happen - organizations going from managing dozens of servers to thousands of containers, from deploying weekly to deploying hundreds of...

Authentication Tokens Are Not a Data Contract

Authentication tokens exist to answer one question: is this caller authorized to do this? They are not intended to be a stable data interface, a schema you can depend on, or an input into application logic. If your application decodes tokens and reads claims from them, this is an...

Apr 1, 2026

Dataverse Skills: Your Coding Agent Now Speaks Dataverse

April Dunnam

Building enterprise solutions is shifting from writing code to directing AI agents. Instead of stitching together APIs, CLIs, and scripts, developers are increasingly describing intent and letting agents execute. For enterprise platforms like Dataverse, this creates a new requirement:...

Power Platform Developer Blog

Apr 1, 2026

Project Nighthawk: A Research Agent Built for Field Engineering

Diego,

Ray

If you work in field engineering, you know the scenario. A customer is deploying AKS in a regulated environment. They hit an issue during node bootstrapping. They want to know exactly what happens when a node joins the cluster, which components run in which order, and whether the...

All things Azure

Azure Skills surrounded by many of the things it can help with

Mar 31, 2026

Building with Azure Skills

Chris Harris

Part 3 of the Azure Skills Plugin series Previously: How to Install the Azure Plugin You've installed the Azure Skills Plugin. The Azure MCP server is running. You have a huge collection of tools and skills at your disposal. So, now what do you actually say to...

All things Azure

Mar 31, 2026

Aspire 13.2: Dashboard Gets Smarter Export and Telemetry

James Newton-King

Aspire 13.2 brings powerful new dashboard features for exporting and importing telemetry, querying telemetry via API, and improved GenAI telemetry visualization.

Aspire Blog

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Mar 31, 2026

Visual Studio March Update - Build Your Own Custom Agents

Mark Downie

This month's Visual Studio update gives you new ways to customize GitHub Copilot. Custom agents allow you to build specialized Copilot agents tailored to your team's workflow, backed by the tools and knowledge sources that matter to your project. Alongside that, agent skills bring...

Visual Studio Blog

Mar 31, 2026

Before you check if an update caused your problem, check that it wasn't a problem before the update

Raymond Chen

It was going to be like that when I got here.

The Old New Thing

Mar 30, 2026

Azure Developer CLI (azd) - March 2026: Run and Debug AI Agents Locally, GitHub Copilot Integration, & Container App Jobs

PuiChee (PC) Chan

Run, invoke, and monitor AI agents locally or in Microsoft Foundry with the new azd AI agent extension commands. Plus GitHub Copilot-powered project setup, Container App Jobs deployment, local preflight validation, and configurable timeouts.

Azure SDK Blog