Microsoft Opens Copilot Agent Harness Public Preview via Foundry
Microsoft has opened the GitHub Copilot agent harness public preview through the Foundry Agent Service in Microsoft Foundry, offering built-in sandboxes, reusable skills, MCP integration, and sub-agent support; the same harness already supports Copilot Code, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, CLI, and VS Code. When creating a prompt agent, this harness must be selected and cannot be changed afterward; CPU, memory, and idle duration are controlled by Microsoft, and bring-your-own-model is not supported. The service is free until December 1, 2026, after which it is billed at $0.0994 per vCPU hour and $0.0118 per GiB hour, with model inference and some tools billed separately.
Microsoft has opened the GitHub Copilot agent harness public preview through the Foundry Agent Service in Microsoft Foundry, offering built-in sandboxes, reusable skills, MCP integration, and sub-agent support; the same harness already supports Copilot Code, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, CLI, and VS Code. When creating a prompt agent, this harness must be selected and cannot be changed afterward; CPU, memory, and idle duration are controlled by Microsoft, and bring-your-own-model is not suppor
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