GitHub Copilot’s Slack public preview is a real expansion of the agent surface: @GitHub can plan changes, investigate problems, triage issues, create pull requests, and spin up a dedicated Slack Code channel for shared agent work. Sources: GitHub changelog ; GitHub Slack docs ; Tiago Botelho on LinkedIn.
GitHub Copilot’s Microsoft Teams public preview brings the same shared-agent model into Teams threads, channels, and DMs, with a dedicated code channel, cloud-sandboxed execution, and extra approval controls for Copilot-authored pull requests. Sources: GitHub changelog ; GitHub Teams docs ; Raji Rajagopalan on LinkedIn.
Microsoft’s Azure Integration Services team published a practical note on giving Copilot agents real tools without hand-wiring MCP: connect a governed MCP server to the GitHub Copilot app so agents can reach enterprise systems through a standard tool layer instead of bespoke point-to-point wiring. Source: Give your Copilot agents real tools, without hand-wiring MCP.
Microsoft Foundry added five agentic primitives to Azure-hosted Claude deployments: structured outputs, web search, web fetch, MCP connector, and tool search. The useful takeaway is architectural, not cosmetic: Microsoft is moving the common agent scaffolding into the platform so teams can keep inference in Azure without rebuilding search, tool routing, and structured response plumbing themselves. Sources: Microsoft Foundry blog ; Anthony Bartolo on LinkedIn ; James Berman on LinkedIn.