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DevClass.com reports on Visual Studio 18.5 (Visual Studio 2026), covering new Copilot-driven “agentic” debugging, changes to how IntelliSense/Copilot suggestions are prioritized, and ongoing developer complaints about theme contrast and forced auto-updates.

In this community deep dive, junjieli walks through the GA release of Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code—covering model experimentation, agent development (no-code and code-first), evaluations, deployment to Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, and workflows for converting, profiling, and fine-tuning local models on Windows.

carlottacaste spotlights Athiq Ahmed’s winning Agents League Reasoning Agents project, CertPrep, detailing a Microsoft Foundry-based multi-agent pipeline that builds study plans, tracks readiness, generates assessments, and applies guardrails and human approval steps.

Sreekanth_Thirthala announces a public preview feature for Azure API Center: a plugin marketplace endpoint that lets developers discover and install AI plugins (including MCP servers and skills) from tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI, while keeping enterprise governance and auth intact.

cindywang explains how GitHub Copilot agents can modernize legacy Java and .NET code inside Docker Sandbox microVMs, keeping host filesystem paths consistent while avoiding risky Docker socket mounts and tightening egress controls during dependency upgrades.

Allison announces `gh skill`, a new GitHub CLI command for discovering, installing, updating, and publishing portable “agent skills” for AI coding agents (including GitHub Copilot), with a focus on version pinning and supply-chain integrity.

Microsoft Developer hosts Shawn Henry and Rong Lu as they walk through the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) 1.0 GA release, covering stable APIs, multi-agent handoff orchestration, Python and .NET support, plus the Foundry Toolkit for VS Code with debugging, testing-style evaluation, and GitHub Copilot integration.

Jim Harrer shares a curated list of 20 VS Live! Las Vegas 2026 sessions now available on the Visual Studio YouTube channel, spanning AI/Copilot topics, modern .NET and C#, Azure cloud-native development, GitHub Actions, and practical productivity and architecture guidance.

GitHub walks beginners through customizing GitHub Copilot CLI using instructions, skills, and custom agents to better match team coding standards, automate pull request tasks, and run specialized checks like accessibility reviews.

Allison announces that Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 is rolling out in GitHub Copilot, including where it’s available (IDEs, CLI, and agents), which plans get access, and what admins need to enable for Business and Enterprise tenants.

Allison explains a new GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent (CCA) admin capability: enterprise admins can now enable the agent for selected organizations (including via organization custom properties), and manage the policy through the AI Controls page or new REST API endpoints.

Yun Jung Choi explains that Azure MCP tools are now built into Visual Studio 2022 via the Azure development workload, letting developers enable an Azure MCP Server inside GitHub Copilot Chat to provision resources, deploy apps, and troubleshoot Azure services without installing a separate extension.

Cassidy Williams interviews GitHub Staff Software Engineer Brittany Ellich about building a personal “command center” app, focusing on how GitHub Copilot CLI and agent-based workflows supported the process from planning through implementation.

GitHub shares how staff software engineer Brittany Ellich built a personal “productivity hub” using GitHub Copilot CLI, including an AI chat agent (“Marvin”), unified task lists, and calendar integrations, with the goal of learning by building your own AI tools.

Jesse Houwing summarizes GitHub’s update that GitHub Copilot can now keep inference processing and associated data within US or EU data residency regions, and shows the enterprise/org policy you must enable to restrict Copilot to data-resident models.

sachoudhury explains GitHub Copilot Custom Skills: repo- or user-scoped SKILL.md “runbooks” that Copilot can discover and execute in agent mode to automate multi-step developer workflows (commands, scripts, and report generation).

David Sanchez lays out a practical DevOps playbook for teams adopting AI coding agents (including GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent), focusing on readiness prerequisites, human–agent collaboration patterns, pipeline changes, governance, and security controls needed to keep quality and accountability intact as non-human contributors scale up.

GitHub shows how GitHub Copilot CLI can speed up onboarding by scanning a repository and returning a plain-English overview of the codebase from the terminal.

Microsoft Developer features Jonathon Frost from the Microsoft Azure PostgreSQL team, walking through migrating to managed PostgreSQL on Azure (homogeneous and heterogeneous scenarios) and demonstrating AI-assisted Oracle-to-Postgres migration using VS Code with GitHub Copilot.

Allison announces that GitHub Copilot’s third-party coding agents (Claude and Codex) now support model selection on github.com, including the currently available Claude Sonnet/Opus and GPT-5 Codex model options, plus notes on required admin policies and repo settings.