"Microsoft Excel is the novelist's most important friend." Bestselling thriller writer Andrew Hunter Murray plots every novel in a spreadsheet. Here's how he uses it: "I'll just look at my scenes and ask: have we learned enough here? Does the scene need to be here? It can't just be, 'oh, let's have a scene set in the fireworks factory,' and we won't really learn anything. If you look at your spreadsheet and you think, I've got four chapters here and there's not the pace in any of them to propel the reader forward, I gotta fix that."

Copilot now fully integrated into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. Everything is bout to be done with prompts. I’m loving it. Zero stress.

Ok, I’ve been neglecting the new @GitHubCopilot Desktop app lately. I’ve been experimenting with context repos and how to orchestrate agents across code repos and context repos (which themselves are powered by @GitHubNext agentic workflows). And the harness in the new desktop app is… exactly what I needed. You can spin up an orchestrator agent that launches background agents across multiple repos, all in parallel. They communicate in real time, sending messages back and forth with the orchestrator. It’s honestly wild to watch the system come alive. My current setup looks like this: One context repo containing agentic workflows for going from spec -> plan Multiple code repos I ask the orchestrator to pull the spec and create a plan in the context repo. Once the plan is ready, it spins up additional agents on the code repos. The next step is obvious: let the harness continue the implementation work in parallel across all code repos, then have the orchestrator collect, summarize, and close the loop. Seeing multi-agent systems coordinate across repos and workflows feels very different from the “single coding agent” experience we’ve all become used to. Now I just need to clean all the work-specific stuff out so I can record a demo/tutorial video. 😅 Is this even possible on other agent desktop apps now?! Great work @pierceboggan, @_Evan_Boyle and team 👏

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"You can run OpenClaw inside your company now." Annoucing our work with @Microsoft to bring OpenClaw to the Microsoft and Windows ecosystems. Claws now work securly in the enterprise.