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BitNet: The Repo That Tries to Make a CPU Think in Ternary
Microsoft’s `bitnet.cpp` turns 1.58-bit models into a new inference stack, where packed weights, custom kernels, and cache-aware math matter more than floating-point precision.
SkillOpt: Training a Markdown Skill File Like a Model Weight
Microsoft’s framework treats agent instructions as editable state, then optimizes them through rollouts, reflection, bounded patches, and validation gates instead of fine-tuning.
Inside microsoft/vscode: The TypeScript Fortress That Keeps a Giant Editor Fast, Strict, and Self-Maintaining
VS Code is more than an Electron app. Its repo shows a disciplined platform built from layering rules, disposable lifecycles, Rust helpers, and AI-oriented maintenance flows.
RPG-ZeroRepo: The AI Repo Generator That Plans the Code Before It Writes It
Microsoft Research’s framework turns a vague software request into a dependency-aware repository blueprint, then generates files in the order the structure demands.
MarkItDown: Microsoft’s Document Converter That Treats Markdown as an AI Ingestion Layer
A stream-based, plugin-driven pipeline that turns messy Office files, PDFs, images, and more into structure LLMs can actually use.
Microsoft RustTraining Is a Bridge, Not a Book
A multi-track Rust curriculum that starts from your old language, then rewires how you think about ownership, async, and production engineering.
microsoft/VibeVoice: The 7.5 Hz Hack That Broke the Audio Context Barrier
How a hybrid LLM-diffusion architecture squeezed 90 minutes of multi-speaker audio into a single pass, prompting a corporate redaction.
generative-ai-for-beginners: The AI Rosetta Stone: Inside Microsoft’s Blueprint for the Agentic Era
How microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners bridges the gap between raw prompts and production-grade agentic systems across 50 languages.
TypeScript and the Bootstrap Paradox
How the world's most successful compiler is outgrowing the language it was built to save.
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ai_night_scientist
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Reinforcing Agentic Creativity in Scientific Ideation with Night Science
XBOX-GDK-dotnet
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Write your XBOX game in C#, not in P/Invoke. The .NET projection of the Microsoft GDK: Gaming Runtime, XBOX Services and PlayFab as Tasks, events and exceptions. NativeAOT-ready on .NET 8, .NET 10 and netstandard2.0.
agent365-runbook
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Step-by-step runbooks for bringing your own agent into Microsoft Agent 365: identity, observability, Microsoft 365 data access, and messaging.
voice-agent
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voice agent in foundry agent service
Defend-the-Tenant-Challenge
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Rules, challenge information, and participant guidance for the Defend the Tenant Challenge.
agent-365-guide
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Step-by-step security configuration guide for Microsoft Agent 365 — from agent creation to identity, data protection, and runtime monitoring across Entra, Purview, and Defender.
faithfulnessgap
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A bring-your-own-model counterfactual audit for the faithfulness of LLM recommender reasoning — the method from "How Faithful Is the Reasoning of LLM Recommenders?" (RecSys 2026), as a reusable tool. Paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3773078.3841294
fabric-warehouse-labs
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This repo contains the files and sql notebooks used for the Fabric Warehouse Labs - its mainly used by the Fabric Jump Start as the source of the files
amplifier-smart-tool-creator
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A smart tool that helps you create, validate, and evaluate smart tools
agent365-labs
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A series of labs to learn how to onboard agents into Agent 365
amplifier-bundle-imagegen
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Image generation bundle for the Amplifier project
XBOX-MonoGame-NetRumble
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XBOX MonoGame NetRumble - a Multiplayer Game Sample demonstrating Microsoft GDK, PlayFab and GameInput implementation for XBOX on PC and XBOX Series X|S in MonoGame.
CoworkSuperUser
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Power BI templates for privacy-aware Cowork adoption analysis using Microsoft Viva Insights.
sqlcon-eu-2026-demos
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SQLCon EU 2026 corenote and keynote demos
synthetic_proposals
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Companion service to AI Night Scientist
amplifier-app-tui
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TUI for the Amplifier project
amplifier-module-tool-exec
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Exec tool for the Amplifier project