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AI, Azure, C#, GitHub

Building an AI Pull Request Agent for Azure DevOps using GitHub Copilot SDK

Many of my customers are still using Azure DevOps. We’ve talked about moving their code to GitHub to take advantage of newer agentic capabilities, but for a lot of teams that move just isn’t possible right now. What does this mean for them? They’re missing out on the excellent GitHub Copilot code review experience. That didn’t sit right with me. Teams on Azure DevOps deserve the same level of innovation and care. So I built an Azure DevOps Pull Request Agent: an AI-powered agent that automatically reviews pull requests in Azure DevOps. The goal is simple: bring high-quality, AI-driven PR reviews to all customers, wherever they are in their DevOps journey. I’ve been spending some time experimenting with the GitHub…

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February 23, 2026 | by Dominique St-Amand | Leave a comment
AI

Self-hosting a MCP Registry for discovery using modelcontextprotocol.io registry

I’ve been having a lot of conversations with customers lately about how to improve governance around MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers when using AI-powered development tools like GitHub Copilot. Right now, most organizations fall into one of two camps: Neither approach is ideal. Why? One, disabling all of them limits the power of the AI-powered development tools. Two, with having everything wide open, one can install a MCP server which can run arbitrary code on its machine. If you’re using MCP servers, you should only add servers from trusted sources and double-check both the editor and server configurations before starting them. So, how do you tighten governance? The good news is that GitHub has been working on this for a…

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December 4, 2025 | by Dominique St-Amand | 1 Comment
Development, Tools, Visual Studio

Self-signed certificate chain problems with GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code

My customers have been excited to start using and experimenting with GitHub Copilot. Their proof of value has really proven to be beneficial in a lot of their development aspects. Some of them have tougher security controls in their corporate environments. One of them is SSL inspection through their firewall/NVA. This had lead to the dreadful error: [CopilotClientManager Information] statusNotification: Warning: The pending stream has been canceled (caused by: self-signed certificate in certificate chain)[CopilotClientManager Error] [ghostText] Error on ghost text request: FetchError: The pending stream has been canceled (caused by: self-signed certificate in certificate chain) The GitHub engineering team is aware of the problem. While the tools continue to improve and a more native fix / solution can hopefully be baked in, as I tell my customers, always open a support ticket to help the engineering team navigate these issues. If your organization is doing SSL inspection and you have access to the Root certificate (and it…

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July 8, 2024 | by Dominique St-Amand | 1 Comment