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Bringing work context to your code in GitHub Copilot
This week we shipped the GitHub Copilot SDK which takes the agent loop from the Copilot CLI and makes it easy to embed in other applications. We’ve been using, ...
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Making Windows Terminal awesome with GitHub Copilot CLI
As someone who lives and breathes in the command line, I love making my terminal feel like home. Windows Terminal is full of personalization options that really allow for a custom experience. Additionally, I can stay within my terminal for my development with GitHub Copilot with the GitHub Copilot CLI. Let's walk through how you can trick out your terminal with some of my favorite customizations and optimize it for using GitHub Copilot CLI. What is GitHub Copilot CLI? GitHub Copilot CLI gives you the power of GitHub Copilot directly in your terminal, without having to use an IDE. I use it all the time when ...
Announcing the JavaScript/TypeScript Modernizer for VS Code
Keeping JavaScript/TypeScript projects up-to-date can be a challenge, especially when it’s time to upgrade a bunch of npm packages or adopt the latest frameworks. We’ve heard from many JS/TS developers that modernizing an older app (upgrading dependencies, fixing breaking changes, etc.) is often tedious and time-consuming. To help with this, we’re excited to introduce the JavaScript/TypeScript Modernizer, a new AI-assisted tool in Visual Studio Code. This Modernizer uses GitHub Copilot under the hood to upgrade your JavaScript or TypeScript apps, guiding you through code updates and package upgrades step by step....
Host Your Node.js MCP Server on Azure Functions in 1 Simple Step
Building AI agents with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is powerful, but when it comes to hosting your MCP server in production, you need a solution that's reliable, scalable, and cost-effective. What if you could deploy your regular Node.js MCP server to a serverless platform that handles scaling automatically while you only pay for what you use? Let's explore how Azure Functions now supports hosting MCP servers built with the official Anthropic MCP SDK, giving you serverless scaling with almost no changes in your code. Grab your favorite hot beverage, and let's dive in! TL;DR key takeaways What wil...
Join us for AI Dev Days – December 10-11
2025 was a year of incredible progress for AI and our industry as a whole. At Microsoft and GitHub, we've innovated beyond isolated chats and prompts to building systems that collaborate with connected workflows and operational intelligence. This shift can be seen across the stack, from Microsoft Foundry, to GitHub Copilot in VS Code and Visual Studio, to the Cloud Agent on GitHub.com. AI is transforming the way we work internally, our customers are working, and developers more broadly are building. With this rapid era of change, we also recognize the vast amount of updates and training needed to keep up. Tha...
Securing Sensitive Mobile Operations with Device-Bound Request Signing
Mobile security goes beyond verifying user identity. If an attacker steals a valid token, how will your backend distinguish a legitimate request from one reproduced in an emulator or cloned environment? This is a gap in traditional authentication flows when applied to the mobile environment. By linking each request to hardware-backed keys generated during secure device registration, it's possible to strengthen the chain of trust and reduce the possibilities of external attacks on the device. In this blog post, we show how a device-bound, proof-of-possession-based signature mechanism can offer more robust pr...
Join the OSS AI Summit: Building with LangChain Event
December 10, 2025 8 am - 10 am Pacific Registration: https://aka.ms/OSSAISummitRegistration Overview AI development is moving at a pace that leaves most teams reacting instead of leading. The next generation of applications will be built by people who understand how to design agents, coordinate tools, and create workflows that can handle real complexity. The OSS AI Summit is designed to help you get ahead of that shift. This event focuses on LangChain v1, Microsoft Foundry, and the systems that make modern AI applications reliable, scalable, and practical to ship. If you want to build smarter agents and u...
Manage Containers the Easy Way: Copilot + VS Code
Managing containers can be one of the most repetitive parts of modern development. Between remembering CLI commands, switching contexts, and digging through logs, it’s easy to lose focus on the actual code you’re building. The latest release of the VS Code Container Tools extension changes that by putting Copilot directly into your workflow - so you can manage containers conversationally, without breaking stride. Why This Matters Containers are everywhere: local dev environments, cloud deployments, CI/CD pipelines. But the tooling often feels fragmented. This update brings a unified, intuitive way to interact w...
New developer resource page for Microsoft 365 interoperability and data portability
Microsoft has long provided interoperability information, interfaces, and tools to help our vibrant ecosystem of partners integrate their products and services with Microsoft 365 productivity applications. This ecosystem includes communication and collaboration solution providers that compete with Microsoft Teams. Alongside these resources, we have also offered data portability solutions to our customers to allow them to move between services as they see fit. Microsoft’s recent agreement with the European Commission formalizes these values into legal commitments. To meet these commitments and help developers...
Behind the Universe demo: From prompt to production with VS Code, GitHub Copilot and the Microsoft Agent Framework
At this year’s GitHub Universe, we set out to answer a simple question: What would it take to go from an idea to production in under 30 minutes – using only natural language, your editor, and AI? On stage, we built a cloud-native, intelligent app from scratch using Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and the Microsoft Agent Framework. In this post, we’ll walk through the journey step-by-step: From spec to code Modern greenfield apps aren’t just “hosted in the cloud” anymore – they’re born there. They’re expected to be cloud-native and auto-scaling. The table stakes have been raised, and t...