Using Azure Blob Storage as a durable filesystem for LangChain Deep Agents

LangChain Deep Agents is an open-source agent harness with built-in capabilities for building LLM-powered agents and applications, including complex, multi-step workflows. A model can reason and gener

Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?

We dive into these questions and other AI hot takes on the latest episode of the GitHub Podcast. The post Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP? appeared first on The GitHub B

Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot

A rewrite this size wasn't affordable before agents. Here's what porting the Copilot agent runtime to 800,000 lines of production Rust actually took. The post Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to R

Introducing Foundry Dev Pack: One Command to Start Building on Microsoft Foundry

Foundry Dev Pack prepares your machine for Microsoft Foundry development with an all-in-one installer for the tools you need across the terminal, VS Code, and coding agents. The post Introducing Found

Announcing Azure AI Speech LLM 2607: Better Multilingual Accuracy, Easier Customization

Learn how Azure AI Speech LLM 2607 improves multilingual and mixed-language recognition, lowers latency, and simplifies domain-specific customization with enhanced phrase lists. The post Announcing Az

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Using the diff, terminal, and browser

Checking agent-generated code usually means hopping between tabs. Learn how to view diffs, run terminal commands, and preview web apps side by side in the GitHub Copilot app. The post GitHub Copilot a

What’s new in Microsoft Foundry: July and August 2026

Catch up on July and August in Microsoft Foundry: stable Hosted Agent and Toolbox SDK paths, Claude tools on Azure-hosted deployments, Model Router updates, local inference improvements, and the SDK m

Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration

In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated workflow cost. Now available as a research previe

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once

Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents

Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!

From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations. The post Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, s