Agents2026-06-08 · source-backed

Microsoft made agent identity a platform primitive with "Autopilots" and Scout.

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2026-06-08

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At Build 2026, Microsoft introduced Autopilots, always-on agents that hold their own identity and act on your behalf, with Scout as the first, shipping for Windows 11+ and macOS 12+. Hosted Agents in Foundry hit GA by end of June with hypervisor-isolated environments, per-agent Entra ID, and built-in content safety. Per-agent identity and runtime isolation moving into the platform layer is the right direction. An agent with its own Entra ID is auditable in a way a shared service account never was.

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Microsoft made agent identity a platform primitive with "Autopilots" and Scout.

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