Azure VM Control Plane Outage, GitHub Agent HQ (Claude + Codex), Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini CLI, MCP

This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian hits four “control plane + trust boundary” stories where the glue layer becomes the incident.

Azure had a platform incident that impacted VM management operations across multiple regions. Your app can be up, but ops is degraded.

GitHub is pushing Agent HQ (Claude + Codex in the repo/CI flow), and Actions added a case() function so workflow logic is less brittle.

MCP is becoming platform plumbing: Miro launched an MCP server and Kong launched an MCP Registry.

Links

Azure status incident (VM service management issues) https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/history/?trackingId=FNJ8-VQZ

GitHub Agent HQ: Claude + Codex https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/pick-your-agent-use-claude-and-codex-on-agent-hq/

GitHub Actions update (case() function) https://github.blog/changelog/2026-01-29-github-actions-smarter-editing-clearer-debugging-and-a-new-case-function/

Claude Opus 4.6 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6

How Google SREs use Gemini CLI https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/how-google-sres-use-gemini-cli-to-solve-real-world-outages

Miro MCP server announcement https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260202411670/en/Miro-Launches-MCP-Server-to-Connect-Visual-Collaboration-With-AI-Coding-Tools

Kong MCP Registry announcement https://konghq.com/company/press-room/press-release/kong-introduces-mcp-registry

GitHub Actions hosted runners incident thread https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/186184

DockerDash / Ask Gordon research https://noma.security/blog/dockerdash-two-attack-paths-one-ai-supply-chain-crisis/

Terraform 1.15 alpha https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v1.15.0-alpha20260204

Wiz Moltbook write-up https://www.wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltbook-database-reveals-millions-of-api-keys

Chainguard “EmeritOSS” https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/introducing-chainguard-emeritoss

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