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Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.110 with agent plugins (bundled skills + MCP servers + hooks), native browser interaction for UI validation, persistent session memory across workflows, /fork for parallel conversation branching, and a new Agent Debug panel showing system prompts, tool calls, and events in real time. Hooks enforce project policies at lifecycle events. This is Microsoft codifying every agentic engineering pattern that emerged from the builder community (Willison, Karpathy, Osmani) into platform primitives. What to do: Update to VS Code 1.110. Explore the agent plugin marketplace. The Agent Debug panel alone is worth the upgrade for understanding what your agents are actually doing.
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A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
Microsoft shipped hosted MCP via streamable HTTP with Microsoft Entra authentication — no local installation, instant access to Azure DevOps context (boards, repos, pipelines, wiki) for AI agents. Currently supports VS Code and Visual Studio; Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studi...
The release moves AI agents into a dedicated Agent Host process separate from the extension host, so sessions survive window closures and multiple windows can attach to one session. Microsoft is publishing the protocol openly, letting third-party harnesses including the Copilo...
Six clients. One manifest. Zero vendor lock. Vercel published Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on August 6, an openly licensed spec that bundles Agent Skills and MCP servers behind a single portable manifest. The shape is deliberately boring: a plugin.json requiring only schemaVersion and...
Microsoft and GitHub disabled the repos, many of them Azure and AI developer tools, after attackers injected malware that harvests credentials the moment a repo is opened in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or VS Code. Miasma is built on the open-sourced Mini Shai-Hulud codebase from...
Announced September 4 and gated on developer-class hardware: 64GB+ unified memory and 250+ GB/s bandwidth, enough to run 30B-parameter models without paying per token. It preinstalls languages, runtimes and source control, pins Terminal and VS Code, turns on file extensions, h...
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