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 ...

Microsoft's new Azure Skills Plugin bundles curated Azure skills, the Azure MCP Server, and the Foundry MCP Server into a single install for AI coding agents. The package is designed to help agents ...

AI workloads are scaling faster than any single infrastructure approach can support — with more models, new agent-driven workloads and surging compute demand driving the need for greater ...

Microsoft is positioning Azure‑hosted AI agents as a core cloud service for enterprises, rolling out new tools and infrastructure that make autonomous, task‑oriented software agents a standard part of ...

At Microsoft Build 2026 on June 2, Microsoft outlined how its Azure cloud and broader AI portfolio are being re-engineered for agentic AI — software agents that reason, retrieve knowledge, take ...

Microsoft introduces Azure Copilot Observability Agent, advancing AI-driven observability and cloud operations management. Agent correlates logs, metrics, traces, topology and operational context to ...