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2026-04-21 visual-studio debugging copilot

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.

2026-04-20 visual-studio github-copilot agent-skills

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.

2026-04-14 dotnet copilot github-copilot

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.

2026-03-29 dotnet ai ai-agents

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.