Tag: GitHub Copilot
Microsoft Confirms Copilot ‘Super App’ Is Coming This Year — and It’s About More Than Convenience
Tom Smith | | Agent 365, agent sprawl, AI agents, AI identity management, autonomous agents, Copilot Chat, Copilot Code, Copilot consolidation, Copilot Cowork, enterprise AI governance, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Autopilots, Microsoft Copilot super app, Microsoft Entra Agent ID, One CopilotMicrosoft is combining Copilot Chat, Code, Cowork and Autopilots into one super app, raising new questions about agent governance, identity, licensing and security ...
GitHub Brings Stacked Pull Requests Out of the Shadows
Tom Smith | | AI coding agents, branch protection, code quality, code review, continuous integration, developer productivity, DevOps workflows, gh-stack, GitHub Copilot, GitHub public preview, GitHub stacked pull requests, merge queues, pull request size, software engineering, Stacked PRsGitHub introduces native stacked pull requests, helping development teams break large changes into smaller, dependency-ordered PRs that are faster and easier to review ...
GitHub Gives Teams More Control Over Copilot’s Cloud Agent in Linear
Tom Smith | | agent guidance, agentic coding, AI coding agent, AI development workflow, automated pull requests, branch controls, Copilot cloud agent, custom coding agents, devops automation, engineering productivity, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Marketplace, Linear integration, Linear issues, mid-session steering, model selection, software development agentsGitHub’s Copilot cloud agent integration with Linear is now generally available, adding model, branch and team-level controls for delegated coding work ...
‘HalluSquatting’ Compromises AI Coding Agents to Install Malware, Create Botnets
Jeff Burt | | AI coding agents, AI hallucinations, AI security agents, Cursor, devops, GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, HalluSquatting, indirect prompt injection, LLM, OpenClaw, promptwareHallucinations have been an ongoing problem since OpenAI first introduced its ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, highlighting generative AI’s tendency to generate plausible but false or misleading information and its inability to ...
Z.ai Debuts ZCode to Compete With GitHub Copilot, Cursor and Anthropic
Chinese AI developer Z.ai has introduced ZCode, a desktop application that automates software development tasks, positioning the platform to compete with established coding platforms from Anthropic, GitHub and Cursor. The company built ...
Microsoft Brings MCP to Geospatial Workflows With Planetary Computer Pro Tools for VS Code
Microsoft's Planetary Computer Pro MCP Tools for VS Code bring 35+ geospatial tools into GitHub Copilot via natural-language prompts ...
GitHub Copilot Gets Its Own App — and It’s More Than a Coding Assistant
Tom Smith | | Agent Merge, agentic development, AI coding assistant, CI/CD, developer tools, devops automation, GitHub Copilot, software development lifecycleGitHub has launched a standalone Copilot desktop app in technical preview, moving beyond the IDE to introduce a dedicated cockpit for agentic development. The app enables developers to manage parallel, isolated agent ...
GitHub’s Spec Kit Puts the Spec Back in Software Development
Tom Smith | | AI coding agents, devops automation, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Spec Kit, software governance, Spec-Driven Development (SDD), technical debt, vibe codingGitHub’s open-source Spec Kit aims to eliminate "vibe coding" by prioritizing durable specifications over vague prompts, providing a structured, agent-agnostic workflow for Copilot, Claude, and Gemini ...
Visual Studio Code 1.115 Moves Deeper Into Agent-Native Development
Tom Smith | | agent-native, Agentic Workflows, AI-assisted development, GitHub Copilot, integrated browser, microsoft, Playwright, terminal tools, Visual Studio Code 1.115, VS Code Agents, VS Code InsidersVS Code 1.115 adds the VS Code Agents companion app, better browser tools, and background terminal interaction for agentic development workflows ...
GitHub Copilot CLI Gets a Second Opinion — and It’s From a Different AI Family
Tom Smith | | AI agents, AI code review, Claude Sonnet 4.6, cross-family collaboration, developer tools, GitHub Copilot, GPT-5.4, Rubber Duck, SWE-Bench ProGitHub Copilot CLI’s "Rubber Duck" experimental feature uses cross-family model collaboration (Claude + GPT-5.4) to catch architectural flaws and reduce logic errors ...
AI Won’t Replace Developers—But it is Changing How They Work
Manoj M Chambarge | | AI coding tools, AI-assisted coding, developer productivity, GitHub Copilot, software developmentAI is reshaping software development by accelerating coding, testing and reviews while reinforcing the need for human judgment and oversight ...
Microsoft Azure Skills Plugin Gives AI Coding Agents a Playbook for Cloud Deployment
Tom Smith | | agent orchestration, AI coding agents, AI in software delivery, Azure automation, Azure cost optimization, Azure Skills Plugin, Claude Code, cloud deployment, devops, Foundry MCP, GitHub Copilot, guardrails, infrastructure as code, institutional knowledge, MCP Server, Microsoft Azure, platform engineering, VS Code agent pluginsMicrosoft’s new Azure Skills Plugin closes the gap between AI-written code and production deployments by packaging expert Azure knowledge as executable skills, backed by MCP servers for real infrastructure actions and AI ...
