The coding agents tracker
One bookmark for coding agents, LLMs, and MCP.
This pillar collects everything on the site about AI coding agents, LLMs, and the Model Context Protocol: Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, GitHub Copilot’s agent mode, the Microsoft Agent Framework, MCP servers and skills, and the patterns for wiring LLM-driven automation into real workflows.
What to read first
If you’re new to this track, start with Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0: Building AI Agents in Pure C# for the .NET side of the story, and Wiring Model Context Protocol servers from C# on .NET 10 for the MCP plumbing that most of the 2026 posts build on.
For Copilot specifically, Agent Skills land in Visual Studio 2026 18.5 and What 878 Copilot Coding Agent PRs in dotnet/runtime actually look like cover both the feature surface and the real-world results.
What’s on this page
The table below is auto-generated from posts tagged with any of: ai-agents, llm, mcp, claude-code, cursor, github-copilot, agent-skills, microsoft-agent-framework. A weekly job re-sorts it so the newest coverage bubbles up.
If you want the .NET-centric view instead, the companion .NET 11 tracker pillar collects every post about the .NET 11 release cycle; a lot of those posts overlap with this one via the ai and mcp tags.
Index (9 posts)
2026 / 04
- How to Build a Custom MCP Server in TypeScript That Wraps a CLI
Step-by-step guide to wrapping any command-line tool as a Model Context Protocol server using the TypeScript SDK 1.29. Covers the stdout trap, child_process patterns, error propagation, and a full working git server.
- Azure MCP Server Ships Inside Visual Studio 2022 17.14.30, No Extension Required
Visual Studio 2022 17.14.30 bundles the Azure MCP Server into the Azure development workload. Copilot Chat can hit 230+ Azure tools across 45 services without installing a thing.
- Visual Studio 18.5's Debugger Agent Turns Copilot Into a Live Bug-Hunting Partner
Visual Studio 18.5 GA ships a guided Debugger Agent workflow in Copilot Chat that forms a hypothesis, sets breakpoints, rides along through a repro, validates against runtime state, and proposes a fix.
- Agent Skills Land in Visual Studio 2026 18.5: Copilot Auto-Discovers SKILL.md From Your Repo
Visual Studio 2026 18.5.0 lets GitHub Copilot load Agent Skills from .github/skills, .claude/skills, and ~/.copilot/skills. Reusable SKILL.md instruction packs travel with your repo.
- GitHub Copilot Modernization: The Assessment Report Is the Actual Product
GitHub Copilot Modernization is pitched as an Assess, Plan, Execute loop for migrating legacy .NET apps. The assessment phase is where the value lives: an inventory report, categorized blockers, and file-level remediation guidance you can diff like code.
- Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0: Building AI Agents in Pure C#
Microsoft Agent Framework hits 1.0 with stable APIs, multi-provider connectors, multi-agent orchestration, and A2A/MCP interop. Here is what it looks like in practice on .NET 10.
2026 / 03
- Generative AI for Beginners .NET v2: Rebuilt for .NET 10 with Microsoft.Extensions.AI
Microsoft's free generative AI course for .NET developers ships Version 2, rebuilt for .NET 10 and migrated from Semantic Kernel to Microsoft.Extensions.AI's IChatClient pattern.
- What 878 Copilot Coding Agent PRs in dotnet/runtime Actually Look Like
The .NET team shares ten months of real data on running GitHub's Copilot Coding Agent in dotnet/runtime: 878 PRs, a 67.9% merge rate, and clear lessons on where AI-assisted development helps and where it still falls short.
2026 / 01
- Microsoft `mcp`: Wiring Model Context Protocol Servers from C# on .NET 10
How to wire Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in C# on .NET 10 using microsoft/mcp. Covers tool contracts, input validation, auth, observability, and production-readiness patterns.