---
title: "Microsoft's AI Engineer Coach Turns Your Coding Logs Into a Private Skills Dashboard"
subtitle: "Microsoft open-sources a VS Code extension that reads your AI coding session logs and coaches you on how to use agents better — all locally, zero telemetry."
url: "https://alphasignal.ai/news/microsoft-s-ai-engineer-coach-turns-your-coding-logs-into-a-private-skills"
author: "AlphaSignal Newsroom"
author_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/editorial-team"
company: "AlphaSignal"
company_url: "https://alphasignal.ai/company/alphasignal"
published: "2026-07-15T01:14:55.000Z"
updated: "2026-07-18T08:24:09.022Z"
type: "Repo"
topics:
  - "Development"
  - "Agents"
subtopics:
  - "Code Agents"
  - "Code Generation"
  - "Code Agents"
  - "Tool Use"
upvotes: 12
source_url: "https://github.com/microsoft/AI-Engineering-Coach"
comments: 0
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---

# Microsoft's AI Engineer Coach Turns Your Coding Logs Into a Private Skills Dashboard

> Microsoft open-sources a VS Code extension that reads your AI coding session logs and coaches you on how to use agents better — all locally, zero telemetry.

We obsess over which AI model is fastest, cheapest, or best at coding. What almost nobody measures is whether _we_ are actually getting better at working with these tools. [AI Engineer Coach](https://github.com/microsoft/AI-Engineering-Coach) is Microsoft's answer to that blind spot: an open-source VS Code extension that reads the session logs your AI coding assistants already write to disk, and turns them into a private analytics dashboard that coaches you on your own habits.

AI Engineering Coach is an open-source VS Code extension built by a group of Microsoft engineers, with the tagline "better agentic engineering" , analyze your AI coding assistant usage across any harness, from one dashboard. It's a community effort by Microsoft employees, explicitly not an official Microsoft product or part of any support offering. It's MIT-licensed and free.

## The Problem It Solves

Its main value is helping developers measure and improve their AI-assisted coding process instead of treating agent use as an untracked black box. Think about what you actually know about your own AI workflow: which prompts you repeat, how often you review generated code before shipping it, whether your repos even give the agent enough context to succeed. The answer for most people is: not much.

In real work, the human and the harness matter just as much as the model. The same model can produce very different results depending on the quality of the prompt, the available context, the instructions in the repo, the tool loop, and the developer's review habits. AI Engineer Coach focuses on exactly that layer.

## One Dashboard, Every Harness

The extension is designed to help developers improve how they work with tools such as VS Code, Claude, Codex, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot for Xcode, and Copilot CLI. Each tool gets a dedicated parser that normalizes its logs into a single shared data model, so you get unified analytics regardless of which assistant you use day-to-day.

Here's what it reads today:

* **GitHub Copilot (VS Code / Insiders)**

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## Sources

- [microsoft/AI-Engineering-Coach — GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/AI-Engineering-Coach)
- [AI Engineering Coach: Measure How You Actually Code with AI — clouddev.blog](https://clouddev.blog/AI/AI-Engineering/ai-engineering-coach-measure-how-you-actually-code-with-ai/)
- [AI Engineer Coach — DeepWiki](https://deepwiki.com/microsoft/AI-Engineering-Coach)
- [AI Engineer Coach — ExplainGit](https://explaingit.com/microsoft/ai-engineering-coach)
- [AI Engineer Coach — Ted Tschopp](https://tedt.org/AI-Engineer-Coach/)