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Tools2026-07-15 · source-backed
The July 14 update brings expert-authored agent skills into the mainstream IDE to customize agentic workflows without hand-rolling prompts. (Microsoft Learn) The skills-as-files abstraction is officially out of the CLI and into the editor. This is the AIE World's Fair thesis showing up as a shipped feature.
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