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Agents2026-08-09 · source-backed
InfoQ reported the Agent Framework Harness and Foundry Hosted Agents reaching GA in .NET and Python on August 3, bundling function invocation, per-call history persistence, context compaction, todo lists with plan/execute modes, file memory, skills, web search, tool approval, and OpenTelemetry. That 98.4/1.6 split is the number I'd put on a slide. Everyone optimizes the model; almost all the code is scaffolding. Also telling: in a comparative run MAF halted after 40 round-trips with a limit-reached message while the GitHub Copilot SDK ran to 300 without stopping on its own.
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Every coding agent ships a permission prompt. The premise is that a human looking at the command is the control. That premise just got measured, and it doesn't hold. Scale X published results on August 5 from 40,000+ plays of its agent-permission game covering 409,000+ individ...
Every coding agent ships a permission prompt. The premise is that a human looking at the command is the control. That premise just got measured, and it doesn't hold. Scale X published results on August 5 from 40,000+ plays of its agent-permission game covering 409,000+ individ...
Released July 22, it bundles the tool-calling loop with iteration limits, per-call history persistence, context-window compaction, persistent todo/plan tracking, durable file memory across turns, progressively-loaded skills, web search, standing tool-approval rules with heuris...
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...
Spotify's Portal team published Xirp on August 10: a vendor-neutral agentic development environment that manages concurrent sessions across Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex, each session isolated in its own git worktree so dozens of agents can work the same codebase without...
Published August 4, the GitHub Copilot Agent for Agent Framework ships as Microsoft.Agents.AI.GitHub.Copilot for .NET 8+ and agent-framework-github-copilot for Python 3.11+ (Microsoft). Every shell command, file write, URL fetch, and custom tool routes through a user-defined p...
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