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microsoft/AI-Engineering-Coach parses local AI coding session logs on-machine and returns agentic readiness checks, instruction-file audits, workspace context maps and five practice scorecards with severity ratings and example prompts, backed by 45 editable markdown detection rules and a coverage heatmap. MIT, 3,968 stars, pushed today, with no marketplace listing and no release, so you build the .vsix yourself; the dashboard also runs as a canvas inside the GitHub Copilot app. First first-party tool I've seen that treats your own transcripts as the diagnostic artifact instead of your code.
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Microsoft researchers detailed SymJack, a symlink-hijack RCE affecting six coding agents, and TrustFall, which impacts Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and GitHub Copilot (Microsoft Security). These join Semantic Kernel prompt-injection-to-host-RCE flaws. The local coding agen...
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GitHubCopilotProvider lets agents run against a Copilot subscription's endpoint without a separate API key. The compatibility note: DeferredToolResults.approvals now rejects invalid values instead of accepting them, so code passing malformed approval payloads that previously s...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
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