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  Microsoft Agent Framework Makeover: Claws, Loops and Harnesses

  Microsoft's newly released Agent Framework Harness packages the loops, planning, memory, context management and safety controls that developers previously had to assemble around AI models themselves.
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  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 additional token use.
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  Copilot AI Billing Shock Met with Meters, Caps and Token-Saving Tools

  GitHub is layering spending limits, expanded credit allowances and increasingly granular usage reporting onto Copilot, while Microsoft is reworking Visual Studio and VS Code to expose -- and reduce -- the cost of agentic development.
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  The AI-Powered Software Development Lifecycle

  René van Osnabrugge makes the case that AI's biggest opportunity in software development is not faster coding -- it's reducing the friction everywhere else in the SDLC.