GitHub Copilot app v1.0.5 landed today with model-provider settings for BYOK across OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, and others, plus a fix for the PR merge-status flicker. Source: GitHub releases.
GitHub Copilot CLI’s new terminal interface is now GA. GitHub says the redesign adds a tabbed terminal workflow, a cleaner tool-configuration experience, and better accessibility; the same release train adds HTTP(S) proxy settings, session resume for names with spaces, hidden unsupported slash commands in remote-hosted sessions, inline image rendering, and more. Sources: GitHub Changelog and repo releases, with HN discussion.
Microsoft announced Azure Copilot Observability Agent GA. It sits on Azure Monitor and correlates logs, metrics, traces, topology, and operational context across agents, apps, infrastructure, and services to speed root-cause analysis; Microsoft says customers are already using it to cut incident time and reclaim engineering hours. Sources: Microsoft blog and Tech Community companion.
Microsoft published a new Azure Deployment Agent walkthrough today, framing it as a “prompt to provisioned” flow for turning intent into a production-ready workload. The post points to the microsoft/azure-skills repo and the Azure MCP Server in GitHub’s MCP Registry, which makes this feel like a real operator surface rather than a one-off demo. Source: Tech Community.
Agent 365 Skills is a new Microsoft Agent 365 onboarding layer for custom and third-party agents, published yesterday. The pitch is to get agents into Agent 365 “in minutes,” which matters because Microsoft keeps widening the enterprise control plane around identity, governance, and discovery. Source: Tech Community.
Google DeepMind’s “Securing the future of AI agents” is a fresh agent-security paper worth reading. It argues for security at the level of individual agents, multi-agent systems, and defender tooling, and the HN thread shows the usual “good theory, hard practice” debate is already happening. Sources: DeepMind blog and HN discussion.
AG-UI’s repo showed a 2026-06-23 release and still has strong traction at roughly 14.4k stars and 1.3k forks. It’s the agent-user interaction layer complementing MCP and A2A, so it’s one of the few protocol repos in this space that looks like more than a demo. Source: GitHub repo.