Microsoft has launched the Microsoft Agent Framework, an open-source SDK and runtime for constructing, orchestrating, and deploying AI brokers and multi-agent workflows, with full framework assist for .NET and Python.
Launched October 1 and out there on GitHub, the Agent Framework is designed to let builders construct all the pieces from easy chat brokers to advanced multi-agent workflows with graph-based orchestration, Microsoft stated. Builders can experiment domestically with the framework after which deploy to the Azure AI Foundry for AI apps, with observability, sturdiness, and compliance built-in. Multi-agent techniques might be constructed connecting Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and different agent platforms.
Microsoft stated that the Microsoft Agent Framework brings collectively and extends the concepts from the Semantic Kernel and AutoGen initiatives, and that builders presently utilizing these initiatives will discover the transition to the Agent Framework easy. The Agent Framework helps the Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP) and the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol and options an OpenAPI-first design and cloud-agnostic runtime. In consequence, the Agent Framework permits the next capabilities, in line with Microsoft:
