[repo-status] Weekly Repo Status — July 9–16, 2026

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🌟 Weekly Repo Status — July 9–16, 2026

Another active week for GitHub Copilot for Azure! The team shipped 16 merged PRs, closed a massive 20 issues (including a big backlog cleanup 🧹), and has 18 PRs actively in flight. Great momentum! 🚀

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📊 Issues This Week

Issues Opened — 5 total

Skill	Count	Issues
azure-prepare	1	#2828
extension	4	#2845, #2841, #2836, #2808

Issues Closed — 20 total 🎉

Skill	Count	Issues
azure-deploy	4	#2370, #2369, #2347, #2275
azure-kubernetes	1	#2278
azure-prepare	1	#2279
microsoft-foundry	1	#2380
extension	13	#2841, #2836, #2808, #2799, #2376, #2303, #2207, #1631, #1305, #1304, #1238, #1217, #1090

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🔀 Pull Requests This Week

Category	Count
🟢 Open / In Progress	18
✅ Merged	16
🗑️ Discarded (closed without merge)	5

✅ Notable Merged PRs

• #2838 feat: add cicd sub skill — new CI/CD sub-skill added 🎁
• #2846 fix(microsoft-foundry): hosted agents call incoming A2A agent
• #2844 feat: align Microsoft Foundry skill with latest azd behavior
• #2831 eval: migrate azure-validate integration tests to vally eval suites — Vally eval adoption continues 📊
• #2842 feat: include output/skills paths in Skills dashboard
• #2811 doc: rework public-facing onboarding documentation
• #2807 feat: update invocations_ws skill for GA and path-based routing

🚧 Key In-Progress PRs

• #2859 feat: Migrate VM Troubleshooter workflow to azure-diagnostics
• #2856/#2855/#2854 feat: replace azure-validate with script-based steps
• #2833 eval: migrate azure-deploy integration tests to vally eval suites
• #2814 feature: Rework azure-prepare to be script-based

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🏆 Highlights & Themes

1. Vally Eval Migration 📊 — azure-validate tests migrated to Vally; azure-deploy migration in progress. The team is steadily modernizing the test infrastructure.
2. Skills Dashboard 📈 — Multiple fixes and improvements to the Skills dashboard this week, including sparklines, path filters, and blob path sanitization.
3. Microsoft Foundry Updates 🤖 — Several fixes and alignment with latest azd behavior for Foundry agent creation.
4. Script-Based Skill Refactoring 🔧 — azure-prepare and azure-validate are getting refactored to be script-based for greater reliability.
5. Backlog Cleanup 🧹 — 20 issues closed, many of them old integration test failures and deferred work items. The board is much cleaner!

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🎯 Recommended Next Steps

• Merge in-flight skill work: Review and land #2814 (azure-prepare script-based rework) and #2859 (VM troubleshooter to azure-diagnostics).
• Complete Vally migration: #2833 for azure-deploy eval migration is ready for review.
• Address azure-prepare bug: #2828 reports files being written outside workspace — worth prioritizing for user safety.
• Triage dependency bumps: 18 open PRs include several dependency updates — batch review and close/merge as appropriate.
• Continue backlog grooming: Excellent progress this week; keep up the momentum on closing stale issues!

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