Tooling6d ago
Microsoft opens the GitHub-built Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service: public preview, 20+ frontier models plus BYOK, billing from Dec 1
During GitHub Universe on Oct 28, Microsoft put the Microsoft Copilot harness, the shared agent execution layer behind Copilot Code, Copilot Studio, the GitHub Copilot app, the CLI and VS Code, into Foundry Agent Service as a public preview. Microsoft runs the agent loop and sandbox while developers supply instructions, skills, tools and model choice; Microsoft says it works across 20+ frontier models plus bring-your-own-key. Long-running resilience for hosted agents also reached GA. Harness runtime usage is free until Dec 1.
Tooling12d ago
Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, after 70+ agent platforms adopted it with 1M skills published and nearly 280M installs
On 2026-10-22 Anthropic said it is donating Agent Skills, the open standard that teaches agents a task through a folder with a SKILL.md file, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, the same neutral home it gave MCP. The donation covers the Agent Skills name and logo, the GitHub organization and the agentskills.io domain. Anthropic says more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and VS Code, have integrated the standard since December 2025, with 1 million skills published and nearly 280 million installs. Engineers from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and others will maintain it as individuals.
Release59d ago
Microsoft: GPT-6 Astra available today in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio
Microsoft EVP of Apps & Agents Jeff Teper says OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is rolling out today in Microsoft Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio, with the official hub post at aka.ms/AstraInCopilot. Teams and custom agents can use the frontier model inside Microsoft’s Copilot stack.
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