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.
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.
Microsoft is keeping Visual Studio's new built-in Agent Skills switched off by default while a public dashboard measures whether their performance gains justify the additional tokens they may consume.
Visual Studio Code 1.129 adds a dedicated process for running AI agent sessions and an experimental docked editor for reviewing agent-generated changes.
Microsoft's sixth .NET 11 preview advances async validation, C# unions, cross-platform UI controls, database queries, testing tools, Native AOT and container images.
Microsoft is extending Dataverse into coding-agent marketplaces while expanding its MCP tools, certification program and governance controls.
Beyond Copilot usage visibility, the June update delivers several other enhancements centered on AI-assisted development, security and quality-of-life improvements. Here's a quick rundown of the remaining additions announced by Microsoft.
The July 8, 2026, Visual Studio Code update expands agent workflows, chat attachments, browser-tab controls, OS-level shortcuts and enterprise telemetry management.
Microsoft says TypeScript 7, announced July 8, brings native Go performance to VS Code, Visual Studio and other editors.
Microsoft's July 1 Visual Studio Code update continues a recent push to make the editor's integrated browser a more capable development surface -- and a more useful tool for AI agents.
After publicly touting pull request limits as a way to cut maintainer noise, GitHub is taking the same idea further with a new setting that lets repository admins restrict issue creation to collaborators only.
SkiaSharp 4.148.0 is the first stable v4 release, bringing a newer Skia engine, API cleanup, performance work and a Microsoft-Uno co-maintenance model.
Spring AI 2.0 advances the Java framework for generative AI apps with a Spring Boot 4 baseline, cleaner agentic tooling, Model Context Protocol support and vendor-backed integrations including Azure Cosmos DB.
Visual Studio Code 1.126 adds session-level Copilot cost information, continuing Microsoft's recent focus on helping developers monitor and manage usage-based GitHub Copilot billing.
Eclipse Open VSX has reached 1.0.0, highlighting its role as a vendor-neutral registry for VS Code-compatible extensions.
Infragistics Ultimate 26.1 introduces the Ignite UI Enterprise MCP toolchain for AI-assisted app development across Angular, React, Web Components and Blazor.
VS Code 1.125 adds in-editor visibility into additional Copilot budget usage as GitHub's AI-credit billing model continues to draw developer scrutiny.
Microsoft's Go-based TypeScript rewrite has reached Release Candidate status, moving from a separate native-preview package into the regular TypeScript npm package while leaving some ecosystem-facing API work for TypeScript 7.1 or later.
A Microsoft MVP Blog post on Visual Studio Live!'s longevity arrives as the 2026 conference series continues with upcoming stops at Microsoft HQ, San Diego and Orlando.
.NET 11 Preview 5 focuses on under-the-hood runtime performance gains, streamlined APIs and language features that reduce boilerplate, plus built‑in security checks and incremental ASP.NET Core and EF Core improvements aimed at everyday developer productivity.