Microsoft Discovery: Microsoft Build 2026
Microsoft Discovery brings agentic, VS Code-based AI to scientific research, running specialized agents that hypothesize, simulate, and create new agents on the fly.
“If Microsoft Discovery does not find an agent for a task, it will create one on the fly”
At Build 2026, Microsoft demoed Microsoft Discovery, a VS Code-based platform that runs teams of specialized AI agents following the scientific method to plan, discover, and test — shown finding new plastic-decomposing proteins. It maps scientific discovery onto agentic software engineering (planning, coding, testing) and can spawn new agents on the fly, signaling Microsoft's push to apply agentic AI to real-world R&D.