Athena

Athena by Microsoft is an AI collaborative agent integrated into Teams for dev workflows. It manages PRs, tasks, releases & more. An open-source template (Dex) is available.

Athena is Microsoft's AI-powered collaborative agent designed to streamline developer workflows within Microsoft Teams. It acts as a virtual teammate, managing tasks like pull requests, work items, security reviews, and release tracking—all without leaving Teams. By reducing context switching, Athena helps teams work faster and more efficiently, with features like intelligent reviewer recommendations, natural language queries, and automated compliance processes. Used by over 2,000 Microsoft engineers, Athena has significantly improved PR cycle times and productivity. Developers can customize their own version using the open-source Dex template, integrating GitHub workflows seamlessly into Teams. Built on Azure DevOps and GitOps principles, Athena is modular, extensible, and easy to adopt. Microsoft continues to enhance its capabilities, aiming to make development workflows even more proactive and adaptive.