Conference session catalogs are a graveyard of good intentions. You bookmark 40 talks, attend 12, and leave with a pile of notes that never make it into your codebase. Microsoft just shipped a tool that tries to close that loop entirely -- and it lives in your terminal.
The Microsoft Build CLI is a GitHub Copilot CLI skill -- a plugin that extends the agent with specialized knowledge -- that connects your local project directly to the Build 2026 session catalog. It reads your dependencies, finds relevant sessions, and helps you act on what you learn, all from your terminal.
One command to install, zero context-switching
Getting started takes about 30 seconds. Open GitHub Copilot CLI in any project and run:
/plugin install microsoft/Build-CLI
/restartThen just ask it a question in plain English:
What Build sessions are relevant to my project?The skill reads package.json, requirements.txt, .csproj, go.mod, and other dependency files, maps them to Microsoft products, and searches the live Build 2026 session catalog. No configuration, no API keys, no manual tagging of your stack.
Node.js 22+ is recommended -- it enables the @microsoft/events-cli package for faster local search and caching. Without it, the skill falls back to direct HTTP and everything still works.
Three phases, one workflow
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