Visual Studio Magazine

New Agents Panel Brings Copilot Coding Tasks to Visual Studio and VS Code

GitHub has expanded its Copilot coding agent with a new agents panel, giving Visual Studio and VS Code users a centralized way to launch and track AI-driven coding tasks directly alongside their ...
Security Boulevard

Shifting Security Left for AI Agents: Enforcing AI-Generated Code Security with GitGuardian MCP

In this article, we will explore the hot topic of securing AI-generated code and demonstrate a technical approach to shifting ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with New Experimental GitHub Copilot 'Agent Skills' in VS Code

Visual Studio Code 1.108 adds experimental Agent Skills, allowing GitHub Copilot to load custom instructions, scripts, and resources for specialized tasks. Agent Skills are defined in a simple folder ...
InfoQ

MSSQL Extension for VS Code 1.34.0 Deepens Copilot Agent Mode, Adds Colour‑Coded Connections

The Azure SQL team has released version 1.34.0 of the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, a cross‑platform tool for developing against SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and SQL Database in Fabric.
Singularity Hub

AI Agents Are Here. This Is What They Can Do—and How They Can Go Wrong

We are entering the third phase of generative AI. First came the chatbots, followed by the assistants. Now we are beginning to see agents: systems that aspire to greater autonomy and can work in ...