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Agent Plugins 1.0: one portable format for skills and MCP servers

Agent Plugins 1.0 removes duplicate packaging when the same skills and MCP servers must work across compatible clients. Here is when that helps and what remains client-specific.

Agent Plugins 1.0: one portable format for skills and MCP servers

Agent Plugins 1.0 removes duplicate packaging when the same skills and MCP servers must work across compatible clients. Here is when that helps and what remains client-specific.

98 skill folders, three coding setups, seven that don't exist: auditing your own SKILL.md library

I counted the skill folders across Claude Code, a shared agents catalog, and Copilot on my own machine. 98 total, including seven Google ADK Agents CLI folders pointing at nothing. Here's what a real audit finds and the checklist to run it yourself.

The hidden costs of spec-driven development: when structure helps and when it slows you down

Spec-driven development fixes the 70% problem, but it also adds planning tax, review bottlenecks, and process overhead. Here is how to know when full specs are worth it and when to use a lighter path.

MCP finally got enterprise authorization: here's what changed

MCP's Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension just went stable. VS Code 1.123 shipped it in Preview with Entra ID support. One OAuth prompt per server is now a policy problem, not a user problem.

Terraform on Azure with guardrails: pre-commit, Trivy, and Anton Babenko's hooks

A small Azure Terraform setup wired to a pre-commit pipeline using Anton Babenko's pre-commit-terraform hooks: formatting, validation, linting, docs, and security scanning before code ever leaves your machine.

GitHub Copilot App vs VS Code Agents Window (2026): Which one should you use?

GitHub Copilot App is now open to Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users. Compare it with the VS Code Agents Window and pick the right surface for each workflow.