Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio 2026 Gives Copilot Built-In Skills -- and Makes Them Prove Their Worth

Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with New Experimental GitHub Copilot 'Agent Skills' in VS Code

Visual Studio Code 1.108 adds experimental Agent Skills, allowing GitHub Copilot to load custom instructions, scripts, and resources for specialized tasks. Agent Skills are defined in a simple folder ...
InfoWorld

GitHub Copilot SDK allows developers to build Copilot agents into apps

Available in a technical preview, the SDK for Node.js, Python, Go, and .NET provides programmatic access to the agentic power of the Copilot CLI. GitHub has launched a technical preview of the GitHub ...
InfoWorld

Building AI agents with the GitHub Copilot SDK

GitHub Copilot is one of the more mature AI assistants in use, having begun life as a way to use AI tools for code completion. Since then, Copilot has added features, becoming a resource for ...
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Microsoft launches GitHub Copilot desktop app to manage multiple AI agents

GitHub has unveiled a desktop appl designed to act as a centralised control centre for artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Announced at the Microsoft Build 2026 conference, the new GitHub Copilot app ...
techtimes

GitHub Copilot Replaces GPT-4 With Project Polaris, Ships Multi-Agent VS Code at Build

An audience member seated near a Microsoft logo listens as Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella speaks during the Microsoft Build conference opening keynote in Seattle, ...
InfoQ

GitHub Copilot Desktop App Targets Parallel Agentic Workflows

GitHub has introduced the GitHub Copilot app, a desktop control centre for agent-native development that aims to keep engineers in charge while AI agents handle more coding work. Mario Rodriguez ...