How I built a full-featured podcast analytics dashboard with GitHub Copilot without writing a single line of code myself.
Developers are increasingly relying on AI agents to both build new software as well as extend capabilities of existing projects that they support. One challenge with AI-based systems, however, is that to produce the right output you need to first establish really good context. If you don't decide what you're building and why you're building it ahea...
Discover and save the best GitHub Copilot chat modes, instructions, and prompts right from Copilot Chat using the new Awesome Copilot MCP Server—install with Docker, search, preview, and commit in one flow.
Written by: Maggie Liu, Thiago Rotta, Vinicius Souza, James Tooles, & Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Labs 1. Introduction Generative AI is moving from proof‑of‑concept pilots to mission‑critical workloads at a velocity rarely seen in enterprise technology. The first wave of projects typically stood up a single “do‑everything” agent, a large langu...
OpenAI announced GPT-5 last week in "GPT-5 and the new era of work". Working with OpenAI, we rolled out GPT-5 support the day it launched, making sure you can use and build with it and integrate it into your applications immediately. We've got you covered with a dev-focused rundown: GPT-5 availability, new capabilities, and quick-start steps. An...
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly established itself as the go-to standard for seamlessly connecting AI agents with a variety of external tools and services. In just a few months, it has become a prominent topic at developer events and forums, gaining adoption from companies of all sizes. To meet the rapid pace of advancements, we ran ...
MCP has evolved significantly beyond its original goal of "providing context to LLMs." With recent enhancements including resumable streams, elicitation, sampling, and notifications (progress and resources), MCP now provides a robust foundation for building complex agent-to-agent communication systems. In this article, you'll learn: ...
We've been talking a lot about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) lately, including recent blog posts and sessions at Microsoft Build. In this post, I'd like to share some top tips for how you can use MCP servers we've been building to improve your developer productivity. What's the experience like? If you've never used an MCP server, imagine cha...
Get ready for two days of deep technical insight, community connection, and hands-on learning at MCP Dev Days, a virtual event dedicated to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the emerging standard that bridges AI models and the tools they rely on. You can watch MCP Dev Days by registering on our event page: https://aka.ms/mcpdevdays. From th...
