The Hallway Track
68 tracked signals on mcp.
Five agentic Claude capabilities now run on Azure-hosted Foundry, resolving enterprise data-residency trade-off
“That trade-off is now resolved. Structured outputs, Web search, Web fetch, MCP connector, and Tool search are available on deployments hosted on Azure.”
Microsoft Foundry adds centralized tools, governance, evals, and an agent optimizer to make LangGraph agents enterprise-ready.
“Everyone is building agents, but that's not the hard part anymore. The hard part is integrating them into your business and governing them at scale.”
AI agents should operate with zero credentials, secured via sandboxes and MCP gateways
“Agents do a lot more than I thought...than I expected them to do.”
Stellantis cut AI-driven supply chain planning from one week to one day across 40 plants
“we are able to reduce from one week to one day to create this plan cycle”
AWS AgentCore payments lets AI agents autonomously pay for services within pre-approved limits
“A safe design keeps wallet-provider credentials and the authority to create or expand payment sessions outside the model-facing runtime.”
Databricks Unity AI Gateway centrally governs coding agents, MCP servers, and AI spend across enterprises
“if you're using Codex, Claude Code, or another coding agent, they are all essentially governed through Unity AI Gateway”
AWS adds temporal policies to AgentCore to enforce limits across agent action sequences, not just individual calls
“security controls belong in the infrastructure layer, enforced consistently across every agent, rather than in application code where each team implements them differently.”
Nubank built a security review system to vet 2,000 AI skills as supply chain dependencies
“although they look like configuration they behave like supply chain dependence like uh for example libraries and others”
Microsoft launches SharePoint Copilot Apps, bringing interactive SPFx-built UX components into the Microsoft 365 Copilot canvas.
“your AI coding agents already know how to build this”
AWS launches generally available managed web search for agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
“When your agent searches for “what happened today,” the results reflect what actually happened today.”
AI agents that take actions break the static-guardrails-plus-human-approval security model enterprises rely on.
“why human-in-the-loop review can become security theater when agents operate at scale”
Microsoft Foundry's Toolbox addresses authentication, tool sprawl, and governance as agent tool usage scales.
“the token usage context window got blown up really easily and quickly”
Microsoft Foundry adds Toolboxes capabilities—Skills, Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Browser Automation, Tool Search, and Routines—to scale production agents.
“Tooling doesn’t break at a small scale—it breaks when teams move to production.”
Microsoft Work IQ API goes GA June 16, enabling agent-first enterprise intelligence without Copilot licensing
“What's needed is secure, production‑ready intelligence, built for agents rather than individuals.”
LangChain's Managed Deep Agents enables Slack-to-GitHub PR agents in minimal code
“Having an agent called from Slack is a pretty substantial request, but with Managed Deep Agents channels, this is done with just a couple lines of code.”
AWS shows how to build multi-account AI agents querying distributed data via AgentCore Gateway and MCP.
“The goal is to let data stay where it already lives, in each line-of-business (LOB) account.”
Databricks' Genie One MCP is now generally available for connecting AI agents to enterprise data.
Databricks launches Genie One MCP to give AI agents reliable access to trusted business context.
Slack is now Salesforce's fastest-growing product, positioned as the primary interface for AI agents.
“A million and a half people connect to the Slack MCP server through the agent of their choice on a weekly basis.”
AWS demos 7-layer agentic AI trust chain to move telco POCs into production
“it is not a question of whether Agentic AI anymore, but it is more about how to bring the trust to the agents that are built”
Mobileye cut support response times 90% using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with zero infrastructure overhead.
“The results were so compelling that Mobileye transformed AgentCore into a self-service platform for teams across the company to deploy their own AI agents.”
LLM 0.32 adds visible reasoning traces, server-side tools, and OpenAI Responses API support
“the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project”
Simon Willison's July newsletter covers GPT-5.6, Claude Opus 5, and accidental AI cyberattacks
Microsoft Foundry Toolboxes automate user-delegated auth so agents never handle token plumbing.
“Auth lives on the toolbox, not in the agent: You pick an auth type once, when you connect a tool — the agent code stays auth-free.”
Use MCP servers for known, enterprise-auth, human-in-the-loop tools; use CLIs for model-familiar, light-surface tasks to save tokens.
“the MCP server for GitHub is about 45,000 tokens because it's giving every single API name, description, and schema to the model. But with the CLI, running the help command where it can see all of the tools, there's only about 1,500 tokens”
AWS releases Chaplin, an open-source MCP-based AI agent on Amazon Bedrock for self-service AWS Health event analytics.
“Teams interact with Chaplin directly from their AI assistant – such as Claude Code or Kiro CLI – and ask questions in natural language.”
AWS details a governed serverless data mesh architecture for production agentic AI using MCP tools and fine-grained access control.
“AI agents that autonomously discover database schemas, construct SQL queries, and synthesize data from multiple sources expose governance gaps that the single-checkpoint model built for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) can’t address.”
Microsoft launched Agent mode in SQL Server Management Studio, bringing multi-step Copilot automation via MCP to SSMS.
“Agent mode is let's have Copilot do more, right? So, what are the complex, multi-step kind of scenarios that I can offload and let Copilot do on my behalf.”
AI agents move data retrieval from single-turn RAG to multi-step tool use, but agent-generated SQL often fails retrieval.
“why 90% accuracy in text to SQL is 100% useless”
General Robotics exposes a unified quadruped robot API and AI inferencing via an MCP server so Copilot agents can program robots in natural language.
“I very infrequently have to write code myself. I'm using, you know, models from Cloud Model, from OpenAI through Copilot to kind of help me write all this code.”
Xcode 27 adds an open plugin format bundling skills, MCP tools, and bring-your-own agents.
“With the agent client protocol, a plugin can bring an agent of your choice.”
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore lets coding agents run in isolated cloud microVMs instead of on developers' laptops.
“The laptop won the job by being the nearest machine, not the right one.”
Frontier models now generate high-fidelity UI, enabling a shift from static to generative UI for MCP apps.
“And now it can write better front-end code than me.”
Microsoft's Dataverse skills plugin lets users perform governed Dataverse operations from coding agents using plain English.
“What if your developer, your operations analyst, and your admin could all describe what they need in plain English and get it done?”
Azure App Service introduces built-in MCP to expose existing APIs as AI-consumable tools.
“At this build event, we're introducing a new capability with inside Azure App Service called built-in MCP.”
A demo ties Elastic incident postmortems and OpenTelemetry traces into GitHub Copilot PR review to flag changes that could cause past production incidents.
“moving from looks good to it might be syntactically correct again, but it hits a production issue that happened last month”
Red Hat demos deploying an Azure MCP server from a catalog into a multi-agent OpenShift app that diagnoses and resolves support cases with no glue code.
“In this case we will not be writing any glue code. We won't be building any custom integration. We will just deploy from the catalog the MCP server and we will consume that as a regular workload.”
Foundry lets agents built with open-source frameworks deploy to production without rewriting, using OpenAI-compatible APIs and MCP.
“Changing the model target is configuration not a rewrite.”
Windows now lets AI agents control OS personalization (wallpaper, accent color, RGB lighting) via natural-language skills defined in a skill.md file.
“That markdown file is your contract with the agent. It declares what tools are available, what commands to run, and what parameters they accept.”
Google Maps Platform launches Grounding Light MCP server to reduce LLM hallucinations with real-world data
“It moves the AI from making educated guesses to using real, solid data.”
AWS automates Amazon Quick cross-account AI agent promotion via MCP server on Bedrock AgentCore
Databricks demos Unity AI Gateway as governance layer for enterprise AI agents using OpenAI Agents SDK
Microsoft launches Work IQ Developer Tools as a guided Copilot plugin development lifecycle wrapper
Microsoft launches Work IQ Developer Tools for packaging plugins into Copilot
Reactiv used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate Shopify app updates, cutting merchant config time 80%.
“Refresh my homepage with best sellers every Monday at 9 AM”
AWS and Salesforce Agentforce combine Bedrock Data Automation with MCP to turn public sector unstructured evidence into queryable insights.
“storage is only half the challenge”
Microsoft Foundry enables functional AI agents with MCP tool integration in minimal Python code
“In addition to the instructions we've added an MCP tool that calls the cupcake store and enables us to make the orders.”
Custom MCP servers can connect to Claude and ChatGPT chat interfaces but require many steps
“Connecting a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT's standard chat interfaces is possible, but can take quite a few steps.”
AWS Amazon Quick and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit combine to power specialized supply-chain agent workflows.
Databricks Marketplace now offers ready-to-use MCP servers to power healthcare AI agents.
WorkOS engineer uses Claude Code with MCP-connected Slack and Linear to fix and self-verify bugs autonomously.
“despite, you know, getting more done than ever before, like you're completely fried at the end of the day”
AWS shows how to build an agentic incident triage assistant using Amazon Quick, New Relic MCP Server, and Asana.
“From a single prompt, the Amazon Quick agent investigates the incident, assembles a root cause analysis (RCA) brief with evidence links, and creates a tracked Asana task ready for handoff.”
AI agents using Bright Data's MCP can autonomously write, run, and maintain web scrapers at scale instead of parsing pages with expensive LLM tokens.
“build a scraper that's going to parse it for me”
MCP support for Power Apps is in public preview, letting M365 Copilot discover and query Power App data.
“I'm going to actually code a custom tool for you to use in the standard MCP for Power Apps.”
Oracle and Microsoft launched MCP servers for Oracle AI Database@Azure to accelerate AI app development with GitHub Copilot.
Microsoft Foundry offers a single hub for pre-built and third-party agent tools with enterprise-grade scalability.
“Tool calling is what enables your agent to perform an action, and this is how your agents provide real business value.”
Microsoft is bringing agentic development with AI agents, skills, and MCP servers to Power BI and Fabric creators.
“it's a way to use a genetic experiences with AI agents, skills and MCP servers to help do all of those different creator activities that you know and love today but with the power of AI using LLMs.”
Azure Cosmos DB adds AI-powered schema design, the Cosmos DB Agent Kit, and MCP integration for building AI-native apps faster.
“MCP integration super important is like a USBC for apps and agents these days.”
AWS shows how to secure AI agent tool access in Bedrock AgentCore gateway using Cedar Policy and Lambda interceptors.
Microsoft opens Copilot Components public preview in SharePoint Framework, targeting October 2026 GA.
“Instead of a text-only answer, your agent can bring a real UI – cards, forms, actions, and business data – into the conversation.”