In this episode, Andrea Griffiths sits down with Patrick Nikoletich to unpack the Microsoft Copilot harness. Discover how teams are using the harness for non-coding scenarios, autonomous software factories, and customizing the harness for custom agents. Patrick demos a Dockerized agent worker pool, explains credential-safe inference gateways, and shows how the Agent Host Protocol (AHP) tunnels CLI sessions into isolated containers. Explore what is coming in Copilot harness 2.0, from a Rust rewrite to direct Azure tunneling.
Links mentioned in the episode:
Microsoft Copilot harness: https://gh.io/harness
Microsoft Copilot SDK: https://aka.ms/copilot-harness/sdk/repo
Patrick's demo (harness builder + secure Aspire agent service): https://github.com/patniko/copilot-sdk-aspire
Agent Host Protocol (AHP): https://github.com/microsoft/agent-host-protocol
Local sandbox for agents: https://gh.io/local-sandbox
Copilot SDK workshop: https://github.com/github/copilot-sdk-workshop
#MicrosoftCopilotHarness #AIAgents #GitHub
— CHAPTERS —
00:00 Introduction
01:05 From coding agents and personal assistants to fully autonomous agents
02:55 Designing a secure runtime for flexible agent deployments
04:52 Customizing the harness for three different use cases
08:11 Dockerized worker pools and security architecture
10:07 Agent Host Protocol and CLI tunnels
12:20 Direct Azure tunneling and open source access
13:27 What is coming in Copilot Harness 2.0
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Links mentioned in the episode:
Microsoft Copilot harness: https://gh.io/harness
Microsoft Copilot SDK: https://aka.ms/copilot-harness/sdk/repo
Patrick's demo (harness builder + secure Aspire agent service): https://github.com/patniko/copilot-sdk-aspire
Agent Host Protocol (AHP): https://github.com/microsoft/agent-host-protocol
Local sandbox for agents: https://gh.io/local-sandbox
Copilot SDK workshop: https://github.com/github/copilot-sdk-workshop
#MicrosoftCopilotHarness #AIAgents #GitHub
— CHAPTERS —
00:00 Introduction
01:05 From coding agents and personal assistants to fully autonomous agents
02:55 Designing a secure runtime for flexible agent deployments
04:52 Customizing the harness for three different use cases
08:11 Dockerized worker pools and security architecture
10:07 Agent Host Protocol and CLI tunnels
12:20 Direct Azure tunneling and open source access
13:27 What is coming in Copilot Harness 2.0
Stay up-to-date on all things GitHub by connecting with us:
YouTube: https://gh.io/subgithub
Blog: https://github.blog
X: https://twitter.com/github
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/github
Insider newsletter: https://resources.github.com/newsletter/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/github
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@github
About GitHub
It’s where over 180 million developers create, share, and ship the best code possible. It’s a place for anyone, from anywhere, to build anything—it’s where the world builds software. https://github.com