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# Weekly Review: Business Central AL Development – May 17–23, 2026

[Read the post](https://www.dvlprlife.com/2026/05/weekly-review-business-central-al-development-may-17-23-2026/) · DvlprLife (Brad Prendergast) · 2026-05-26 · 793 words · tier community · reviewed (checked by Opus)

> A weekly curated review of Business Central AL development community posts from May 17 - 23, 2026, covering AI-driven developer tooling, security considerations for VS Code extensions, container management automation, agentic development workflows, and release management practices.

## Key points

- Security risks from VS Code extensions require vetting publishers, permission review, and organizational lock-down to prevent backdoors in development environments
- MCP servers enable GitHub Copilot to manage BC containers directly, replacing manual PowerShell workflows and UI clicks
- Near-autonomous AL development pipelines can handle 12 stages with 3 human checkpoints, using AI agents for mechanical tasks while humans maintain architectural judgment
- Global memory configuration in VS Code agents preserves coding preferences and conventions across workspaces, reducing repetitive instruction
- BC major releases frequently pause or postpone during rollout, requiring flexible update schedules and proactive customer communication

## Quotes

- "a one-click install in VS Code doesn't end up shipping a backdoor into your dev environment" (Highlights the critical security risk from malicious VS Code extensions that can compromise development infrastructure)
- "keeping architectural judgment, design intent, and review discipline as a human responsibility while letting agents handle the mechanical parts" (Establishes the boundary between AI automation and human oversight in agentic development workflows)

## Context

- Features: VS Code extension security, BC Container MCP, agentic AL development, work-item-to-PR pipeline, global memory for VS Code agents, release pause handling
- Versions: 2026

Source: DvlprLife, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.