Daily Agentic Field Watch - 2026-08-26 09:00 UTC
- Microsoft Agent Framework’s latest .NET release line is now at
dotnet-1.19.0, adding session-persisted chat routing, Azure Blob Storage session persistence, hosted-agent state persistence in Foundry, agent-hooks interception, and updated long-running MCP task support. Sources: https://github.com/microsoft/agent-framework/releases ; https://github.com/microsoft/agent-framework
- GitHub Copilot app’s Customize tab is now generally available and turns the app into a hub for MCP servers, plugins, skills, and canvases instead of a flat command surface. Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-25-github-copilot-app-customize-tab-is-generally-available
- Microsoft Foundry’s model router got a meaningful update with new regions, a refreshed model pool, and a more explicit “hill climb” framing for iterative model improvement and routing. Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/model-router-updates-new-regions-a-refreshed-model-pool-and-understanding-the-hi/4521310
- Microsoft Foundry now exposes five Claude agent-building capabilities on Azure-hosted deployments: structured outputs, web search, web fetch, MCP connector, and tool search. This is a real step from “single call” usage toward a platform for production agents. Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/five-new-claude-capabilities-now-available-in-foundry/
- Microsoft Foundry published a Dataverse MCP walkthrough showing how to connect an agent to Dynamics 365 / Power Platform data for secure read/write actions without a large custom integration layer. Sources: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/consume-dataverse-mcp-server-in-microsoft-foundry-bringing-business-data-to-ai-a/4548218 ; https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/azure-ai-foundry
microsoft/agent-lightning shipped v1.0.1, the first official Agent Lightning Skill, and HN picked up the release with a front-page thread. The repo says the skill can be installed for Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot and is aimed at systematically optimizing other agents. Sources: https://github.com/microsoft/agent-lightning/releases ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423077 ; https://github.com/microsoft/agent-lightning