Agents at the Edge: Autonomy Limits, New Runtimes, and the Trust Problem

News

Microsoft Build 2025: Copilot Studio Gets Multi-Agent Orchestration and MCP Support

Microsoft is pushing hard to make MCP (Model Context Protocol) the connective tissue between agents, baking it directly into Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry. If MCP becomes the default handoff protocol, the tooling built around it now becomes critical infrastructure worth paying attention to.

Research

New Paper: Agents Fail Predictably When Given Too Much Tool Access

Researchers found that expanding the tool set available to agents often degrades performance on targeted tasks due to selection overhead and distraction. Practical implication: tighter, task-scoped toolkits outperform give-the-agent-everything setups in most real benchmarks.

Tools

Docker Ships Improved Agent Runtime Isolation with Composable Sandbox Profiles

Docker's latest update lets you define reusable sandbox profiles for agent containers, making it easier to enforce least-privilege execution without rebuilding configs per deployment. This is the kind of boring infrastructure improvement that actually unblocks production rollouts.