Daily Agentic Field Watch - 2026-08-01 09:00 UTC

• Microsoft Agent Framework’s .NET 1.16.0 release is the latest meaningful Microsoft agent-framework update here: it graduates GitHub Copilot agent to stable, adds session creation for tool-approval agents, preserves stable agent IDs in checkpointed workflows, ships a GitHub Copilot BYOK sample, and adds Microsoft.Agents.AI.LocalCodeAct to the release solution filter. Source: https://github.com/microsoft/agent-framework/releases
• GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.78-0 adds /permissions, ACP closeSession, allowDevToolCaches, unknown-setting warnings, progressive transcript rendering, faster long-session resume, and automatic /allow-all judge selection. Source: https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/releases
• OpenAI Agents Python v0.19.0 adds ProgrammaticToolCallingTool, the public agents.decorators module and @tool alias, typed-or-dict SDK config support, better redaction in logs, and VercelCloudBucketMountStrategy. Source: https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/releases
• Microsoft Community Hub’s “From reactive firefighting to proactive operations: custom skills for Azure SRE Agent” ships an open-source pack of 8 custom skills for governance audits, FinOps, and proactive ops on top of Azure SRE Agent. Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/startupsatmicrosoftblog/from-reactive-firefighting-to-proactive-operations-custom-skills-for-azure-sre-a/4542961
• Microsoft Community Hub’s “Building and Deploying Microsoft Hosted Agents to Microsoft Teams” is a practical end-to-end guide for taking an agent from a laptop into Microsoft Foundry Agent Service and out to Teams and Microsoft 365 using the BRK241 FibreOps reference implementation. Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azuredevcommunityblog/building-and-deploying-microsoft-hosted-agents-to-microsoft-teams/4540376