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An agent that answers a question is a starting point. An agent that completes useful work needs more: an interface users can interact with, memory beyond the current conversation, an appropriate environment for executing code, and a way to recover when work is interrupted. Recent Microsoft Agent Framework updates address those needs across .NET ...

Foundry hosted agent isolation exposes two independent controls. User isolation identifies whose data may be used. At the same time, Foundry hosted session isolation identifies where code and files continue to live. For each control, Foundry can resolve the value or the application can provide it. Therefore, the available choices support direct ...

Keep your domain services distributed. Move the specialist's instructions, not another model, into the orchestrator. A multi-agent system often starts with a straightforward design: one agent understands the user's request, delegates to specialist agents, and combines their answers. That was the starting point for my ski resort demo. A resort...

Agents are more useful when they can remember what matters beyond the current conversation. Today, we're announcing a new preview integration that gives Microsoft Agent Framework agents durable, cross-session memory backed by Azure Cosmos DB. The new Python package, , provides . Attach it to an agent once and it can automatically store conversat...