Microsoft released Agent Lightning v1.0.1, the first official release of the Agent Lightning Skill for coding agents. The skill is designed to help coding agents optimize other AI agents by working from an editable agent and a benchmark. Agent Lightning guides measured, systematic iteration across prompts, tools, workflows, models, and reasoning settings. It balances accuracy, cost, latency, and reliability during those improvements. The skill can be installed for Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot with the command `gh skill install microsoft/agent-lightning agent-lightning --agent <agent>`. Version 1.0.1 also strengthens continuous integration, packaging, release automation, documentation, and benchmark reporting.

Lucebox is an optimization hub for hand-tuned LLM inference, specifically designed for individual consumer hardware. It features kernels, speculative decoding, and quantization tailored for each target, with the first megakernel for hybrid DeltaNet/Attention LLMs achieving 1.87 tokens per joule on a 2020 GPU.