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Dylan Birtolo explains a Copilot CLI rollout that makes subagent delegation more selective, reducing unnecessary handoffs and improving reliability and wait times. The post breaks down the delegation failure modes they observed, the orchestration policy changes they shipped, and how they validated the impact with offline tests and production A/B experiments.

Allison announces new controls for GitHub Copilot code review, including organization-level runner configuration (GitHub-hosted, self-hosted, or large runners), support for Copilot content exclusions at repo/org/enterprise scope, and removal of the 4,000-character limit for repository custom instruction files.

Allison outlines when GitHub Actions will start enforcing minimum versions for self-hosted runners, including the registration baseline, the ongoing 30-day update requirement, and the brownout schedule leading up to full enforcement for GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Data Residency tenants.

Allison announces GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.21 general availability, highlighting updates for enterprise admins including organization custom properties for targeting rulesets, GitHub Projects hierarchy view, a new REST API version with breaking changes, GitHub Actions workflow page performance improvements, secret scanning governance updates, and multi-disk storage configuration.

Gloridel Morales announces the June 2026 patch releases for Azure DevOps Server, with direct download links, release notes references, and a quick command you can run on the server to verify whether the patch is installed.

Natalie Guevara summarizes GitHub’s May 2026 availability incidents and the reliability work underway, including moving parts of the monolith to Azure, isolating database domains, and hardening GitHub Actions and Copilot services against cascading failures.

Allison announces an update to GitHub Actions where pull requests opened by github-actions[bot] can run CI/CD workflows after a user with write access approves them, reducing the risk of merging untested bot changes while keeping a security gate for workflows that can access sensitive data.

MichalBar introduces a preview redesign of Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Dashboards tile editing, adding Copilot-assisted visual authoring alongside a more code-friendly KQL workflow. The post walks through creating a visual from a prompt or query, iterating with history, and testing parameterized queries directly in the editor.

Allison explains an update to GitHub AI usage reports so GitHub AI Credits usage is reflected in the standard report fields, including what to use going forward and what changed for data since June 1.

Waldek Mastykarz explains how AI coding agents can silently scaffold outdated Node.js projects when they run npx without pinning versions, due to npm’s engine-aware manifest selection. The post breaks down why this happens and gives practical steps to make agent-driven scaffolding more predictable.

MichalBar introduces the Time Series Visualization (Preview) for Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Dashboards, focusing on how to explore multivariate time series data with series search and grouping, synchronized time-range navigation, and visual customization options like adaptive scaling and linear/log axis modes.

Allison announces a new /settings command in GitHub Copilot CLI that centralizes configuration into a schema-driven interface, supporting an interactive full-screen dialog, inline one-liners, and reset-to-default workflows with tab-completed keys and validation.

Allison announces two new GitHub-hosted runner images in public preview for GitHub Actions, aimed at helping teams validate CI workloads on newer platforms and toolchains before they reach general availability.

Allison announces the public preview of GitHub Agentic Workflows, a GitHub Actions capability that lets teams define reasoning-based automations in natural-language Markdown and compile them into standard Actions YAML, with built-in controls aimed at keeping agent-driven changes safe to apply.

Natalie Guevara explains how GitHub improved secret scanning alert quality by adding LLM-based contextual verification, reducing false positives while keeping detection coverage. The post breaks down where verification fits in the pipeline, what “better context” means in practice, and the measured impact on customer-confirmed false positive alerts.

MichalBar announces general availability of Live Refresh for Real-Time Dashboards in Microsoft Fabric, an event-driven refresh model that updates visuals when new data is ingested. The post explains how it reduces polling overhead, supports pausing/resuming during investigation, and provides configuration options like fallback refresh intervals.

Allison announces that GitHub Agentic Workflows can now authenticate using GitHub Actions’ built-in GITHUB_TOKEN instead of a personal access token, reducing the risk of long-lived credentials and enabling organization-level billing for Copilot CLI usage in agentic workflows.

Laura Jiang announces Copilot Autofix in limited private preview for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, which generates suggested fixes for supported CodeQL alerts and turns them into pull requests. The post explains what’s covered in preview, how the workflow fits into existing review gates, and how usage is billed via Azure.

Leah Tran introduces Visual Studio 18.7’s pull request review experience, which lets developers open PRs, browse diffs, discuss comments, and approve or merge changes from inside the IDE for both GitHub and Azure DevOps repos.

analyticanna introduces Rayfin (Preview), an open-source SDK and CLI for turning content like markdown into shareable, hosted sites deployed as first-class items in Microsoft Fabric, with stable URLs, workspace-based access control, and data captured into a SQL database in Fabric for use across OneLake workloads.

Allison announces new GitHub CLI support for GitHub Discussions via the gh discussion command group, letting developers list, view, create, edit, and comment on discussions directly from the terminal without relying on raw gh api calls.

Allison announces GitHub CLI v2.94.0 support for managing issue types, sub-issue hierarchies, and dependency relationships directly from the terminal, including new flags and JSON fields for automation.

SindhuBharadwaj introduces a Fabric-first migration flow that lets you mount an Azure Data Factory instance inside a Fabric workspace and migrate selected pipelines without switching portals. The post outlines the migration steps, supported connection/authentication mappings, and the validation work to do before re-enabling triggers in production.

Allison announces an update to GitHub Copilot Chat on the web that improves handoff to Copilot cloud agent sessions and adds ways to query previous sessions. The release surfaces in-progress agent status in chat, enables pulling agent logs into the conversation, and adds session search for summarizing past work.

Waldek Mastykarz explains how to measure whether an AI coding agent extension actually improves generated code, using controlled comparisons, clear evaluation criteria, and repeatable scenario runs while tracking both quality and token cost.

Waldek Mastykarz explains why piling up dozens of agent “skills” can quietly burn your token budget and reduce response quality, and how to decide what should stay a skill versus what should become a manually-invoked prompt in tools like GitHub Copilot and VS Code.

Jeffrey Fritz announces the .NET Day on Agentic Modernization livestream (June 16, 2026), focused on practical ways to modernize existing .NET applications without a full rewrite. The agenda highlights GitHub Copilot-assisted modernization, Aspire-based approaches, migration of WinForms and line-of-business apps, and adding agentic/AI capabilities.

Apoorv Gupta explains Spec-Driven Development (SDD) as a spec-first workflow for AI-native engineering, where structured specs act as the shared source of truth across requirements, design, implementation, and validation. The post introduces GitHub Spec Kit and outlines a practical lifecycle teams can adopt to reduce ambiguity and rework.

Mehrnoosh Sameki, Sandeep Atluri, Minsoo Thigpen and Abby Palia introduce ASSERT, an open-source framework that turns natural-language behavior requirements into executable evaluation pipelines for AI models and agents, generating taxonomies, stratified test cases, traces, and scored results that teams can inspect and iterate on.

Aaron Merrill announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric’s OneLake catalog that lets admins assign, edit, and remove workspace role memberships across multiple workspaces from the Secure tab, helping teams standardize access controls and reduce drift as Fabric estates scale.

Natalie Guevara explains how to give GitHub Copilot CLI real code intelligence by installing and configuring language servers via the LSP Setup skill, replacing brittle grep/decompile workflows with semantic features like go-to-definition, find references, and type resolution in the terminal.

Allison announces an update to GitHub Enterprise Cloud billing: enterprises can now create up to 500 cost centers, up from 250, enabling more granular tracking and reporting of usage and spend across large organizations.

The Visual Studio Code Team shares what’s new in VS Code 1.125 (Insiders), focusing on Agent Host improvements like the new /chronicle command set for session history, clearer file path display in chat, and updates to Cache Explorer for navigating multi-agent sessions and prompt-signature allocation details.

Allison announces incremental CodeQL analysis for Go and C/C++ pull request scans, plus incremental support in the CodeQL CLI, with measured speedups across thousands of repositories and details on when the feature is enabled by default.

Allison announces an experimental public preview feature in GitHub Copilot CLI: a /security-review command that reviews local code changes for common vulnerability classes and returns severity- and confidence-scored findings plus actionable fixes directly in the terminal.

The Microsoft Foundry Team announces Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) is now available in Microsoft Foundry, and explains how it’s used to power autonomous agents in Foundry Agent Service and GitHub Copilot, with an emphasis on enterprise guardrails, governance controls, and token-based pricing.

Shawn Henry shares a short overview of Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) and points to a deeper design write-up on how the SDK is structured for building production-ready agents, including core concepts like agent loops, workflows, and harnesses.

Natalie Guevara explains how to define and run custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI so repeated terminal tasks become consistent, reviewable workflows. The article shows how agent profiles live in your repo, and includes practical examples for security audits, IaC compliance checks, release notes drafting, and incident response.

Dan Hellem and Andrew Brenner announce a limited public preview that brings GitHub Copilot code reviews into Azure Repos pull requests, and walk through how to enable it at the organization, repository, and user levels. The post also documents preview guardrails and how token usage is billed via GitHub AI credits to Azure Cost Management.

Allison announces an update to GitHub code scanning that lets organizations keep security coverage on inactive repositories by running scheduled scans when there have been no pushes or pull requests for six months or more.