The Difficulty Modifiers menu in Halo: Campaign Evolved gives you five dropdowns. The player traits system behind it has twelve fields - two whole categories the menu never shows, plus four more hidden inside the two it does. Here is how to reach them from a config file, with the complete list of accepted values for every trait.
Halo: Campaign Evolved still has its developer debug menu built into the retail release. It’s simply disabled through some game parameters you can re-enable it in just a few seconds and tinker with the content.
Arguably, the first of many exciting chapters in MCP development this year - the ability to render user interfaces within the chat experience. Finally, we’re going beyond just text.
A quick guide on how to programmatically set the GitHub issue type with the GitHub CLI, even if built-in functionality for this doesn’t quite exist.
As 2026 rolls in, it’s time for me to turn the page to a new adventure. This also means that it’s a wrap on my current career chapter at Microsoft.
The past year has, arguably, been all about Model Context Protocol. This is a reflection on the past twelve months, and an outlook on the year to come.
The family tradition of attending every Halo World Championship continued in 2025, an extra special year because of the last HCS installment on top of Halo Infinite.
A quick overview of the upcoming change to the MCP specification that introduces support for Client ID Metadata Documents (CIMD), and how it will be supported in Visual Studio Code.
The latest version of Visual Studio Code Insiders now shows a prompt before you bring in a third-party MCP server. Neat! No more one-click command execution.
The official MCP C# SDK now supports OAuth 2.0 authentication and RFC 9728 Protected Resource Metadata, making secure AI integrations simpler for .NET developers.
Tired of agents making wrong assumptions about user input? Visual Studio Code now supports MCP elicitations, where servers can request structured input through the client’s native UI, completely eliminating guesswork and tedium of interpreting LLM input.
