Agent Skills for Azure Bicep with GitHub Copilot: From Manual Work to Automated Workflows

Agent Skills can have a significant impact on your workflow when using AI agents, as they are well suited for reusable tasks. In this blog post, you will learn what Agent Skills are, how to create them, and how to use them in GitHub Copilot. I will also share four Agent Skills that I use … Continue reading Agent Skills for Azure Bicep with GitHub Copilot: From Manual Work to Automated Workflows →

Automated Code Reviews in Azure DevOps using OpenAI models powered by Microsoft Foundry

Code reviews can be a tough and frustrating experience due to long wait times, nitpicking, constant context switching, and many other reasons. GitHub has offered AI-assisted code reviews for quite some time already, but unfortunately Azure DevOps has not. I wanted to see if I could improve the pull request experience by introducing an AI-powered … Continue reading Automated Code Reviews in Azure DevOps using OpenAI models powered by Microsoft Foundry →

Experiment, Prototype, and Validate Azure Bicep with the Bicep Console

The Bicep console is a feature that helps with prototyping, experimenting, and validating Azure Bicep code snippets. Additionally, you can leverage the Bicep console to validate user-defined functions that are generated with GitHub Copilot to check if the output is as expected. In this blog, you will learn what the Bicep console is, explore a … Continue reading Experiment, Prototype, and Validate Azure Bicep with the Bicep Console →

Create your own custom extension for Azure Bicep

A long-lived dream of many Azure Bicep users has been the ability to deploy outside the Azure environment, similar to what you can do with Terraform. With the experimental Bicep local-deploy feature that dream is becoming a reality! A tool that allows you to connect Azure Bicep to any system you want. In this blog, … Continue reading Create your own custom extension for Azure Bicep →

Custom Azure Bicep chat modes for GitHub Copilot

In GitHub Copilot, you have three built-in chat modes: Ask, Edit, and Agent. With a custom chat mode, you can create your own mode by extending the agent with your own behaviour. For example, you can add behaviour so the agent acts as a coding planner, prompt optimiser, or PowerShell expert, etc. In this blog, … Continue reading Custom Azure Bicep chat modes for GitHub Copilot →