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Introducing the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo
Today we're excited to announce the launch of the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo! The Awesome Copilot repo is a community-driven resource with custom instructions, reusable prompts, and custom chat modes that helps you get consistent AI assistance. In other words, Awesome Copilot helps you get the most out of GitHub Copilot by letting you tailor it to your needs. And even better, the available content in the Awesome Copilot repo will grow and grow as we encourage folks to contribute instructions, prompts, and chat modes they find useful! So, let's walk through some workflows where you can see...
Join us for MCP Dev Days – July 29-30
Get ready for two days of deep technical insight, community connection, and hands-on learning at MCP Dev Days, a virtual event dedicated to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the emerging standard that bridges AI models and the tools they rely on. You can watch MCP Dev Days by registering on our event page: https://aka.ms/mcpdevdays. From there, you’ll be able to join a live stream on YouTube or Twitch. All of the content is recorded and will be available afterwards on the Microsoft Developer YouTube channel. Source code for the demos will be available on GitHub too. Event Details Day 1: ...
Security and Trust in Visual Studio Marketplace
In today's fast-paced digital world, keeping the Visual Studio Marketplace secure and trustworthy is extremely important. We know how crucial it is to protect your extensions, so we're always working on new ways to keep things safe. We'd like to share an update on the existing safeguards and upcoming investments that ensure VS Marketplace remains safe and trustworthy. Protection against malware To protect you against malware in extensions, we have a multi-step process in place as shown below. Let's walk through these steps: Malware Actions: Whether we find malware through au...
Microsoft and LangChain: Leading the Way in AI Security for Open Source on Azure
For developers building in the field of AI, the industry moves so quickly that we often prioritise speed and execution over everything else. To keep up with the latest changes, many developers and enterprises are turning to open-source AI tools. One of the most popular tools today is LangChain, an open-source framework for building AI applications. Just over a year ago, Microsoft launched the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) to improve the security of Microsoft, our customers, and the industry at large. This initiative includes open source, with the goal of helping developers be free to innovate, not just quickly b...
Agentic DevOps in action: Reimagining every phase of the developer lifecycle
What if your dev tools could take the first pass at a feature, file a bug report, propose a fix—and deploy it? With Agentic DevOps and GitHub Copilot, they can. Here's how agents will reshape every step of the software development lifecycle.
Connect Once, Integrate Anywhere with MCP
In the fast-paced world of AI development, connecting intelligent applications to the tools and data sources they need can be challenging. That's why Model Context Protocol (MCP) is resonating with some many, an open standard that's transforming how developers integrate AI capabilities into their applications. MCP enables you to "connect once, integrate anywhere" by creating a universal standard for AI systems to communicate with external tools and data sources. MCP servers enable developers to build reusable and composable components that can be plugged into any MCP-compatible client. This reduces duplicatio...
Azure DevOps with GitHub Repositories – Your path to Agentic AI
GitHub Copilot has evolved beyond a coding assistant in the IDE into an agentic teammate – providing actionable feedback on pull requests, fixing bugs and implementing new features, creating pull requests and responding to feedback, and much more. These new capabilities will transform every aspect of the software development lifecycle, as we are already seeing on our own teams within Microsoft and GitHub. Copilot’s agentic capabilities are most powerful when your code lives in GitHub, and that’s why we’ve been working hard to make the experience of using GitHub, Copilot, and Azure DevOps seamless. Now is the t...
Agent mode for every developerÂ
At the beginning of April, agent mode rolled out to all users in Visual Studio Code. Since then, we’ve seen and heard how developers are embracing this tool and using it to transform their workflows. Now, just six weeks later, we’re excited to announce that it’s available to all developers using VS Code, Visual Studio, GitHub Codespaces, JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse and Xcode.  Agent mode wherever you code Agent mode is available to developers using editors from the Visual Studio family. It is available to all users in VS Code and is available in preview to Visual Studio users. Additionally, GitHub Copilot...
Build Apps and Agents with Visual Studio Code and Azure
In tech, the ground shifts fast—new frameworks, new patterns, new demands. That’s why our developer tools need to move just as quickly. At Microsoft, we’re building tools that keep pace with how you build—whether you’re debugging locally in VS Code, deploying to Azure, or exploring what’s next with AI. Our goal: to help you ship faster, stay in flow, and adapt as the stack evolves. At Microsoft, we’re focused on helping developers use AI to build AI-powered apps and agents, without leaving their editor. Here's what’s new—and what’s coming next! Agentic DevOps for Azure Throughout the full lifecycle of your ap...