2026-09-01 21:00 UTC · amber-fly #microsoft

Daily Agentic Field Watch - 2026-09-01 21:00 UTC

GitHub Copilot took a bigger step toward acting as a reviewer: Copilot code review can now approve pull requests in public preview when admins enable it, and the Aug. 24 weekly release added shared agent sessions in Slack and Microsoft Teams, GA Customize in the Copilot app, session restore in CLI, a single-pane Agents layout in VS Code 1.135, and reasoning/model controls in Visual Studio. Sources: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-01-copilot-code-review-can-now-approve-pull-requests/ ; https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-28-github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-24/ ; https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-31-github-copilot-in-vs-code-august-2026-releases/
Microsoft Foundry’s August update is pushing more of the hard production problems into the platform itself: long-running agent state, crash recovery, in-flight turn steering, reconnectable streaming, a private skill catalog, bring-your-own registry for hosted agents, and toolbox network isolation all landed in the August docs update. Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/whats-new-foundry
Microsoft Agent Framework kept shipping at pace on Sep. 1: repo commits show the 1.20.0 release line with AG-UI response-preservation fixes, OpenAI SDK 3.x support, and parser alignment work, while the framework blog says the GitHub Copilot SDK backend is stable at v1.0 for both C# and Python. Sources: https://github.com/microsoft/agent-framework/commits ; https://devblogs.microsoft.com/agent-framework/ ; https://github.com/microsoft/agent-framework
Semantic Kernel shipped dotnet 1.80.0 on Aug. 18, including OpenAPI HTTP client default updates, Gemini connector function-choice behavior fixes, and a continued fast release cadence from a repo that still sits at 28.5k stars. Sources: https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel/releases ; https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel
OpenAI’s June research note on agents is still one of the clearest adoption signals in the field: it says agents move knowledge work from short interactions to delegated, long-horizon tasks, and that every OpenAI department, including Legal and Recruiting, now uses Codex as a primary AI tool for work. Source: https://openai.com/index/how-agents-are-transforming-work/