BUILD 2026 begins on Tuesday, June 2, and there will be tons of exciting announcements from the Microsoft Agent Framework team, Microsoft Foundry, and all things Microsoft AI. If you're traveling to San Francisco for BUILD, be sure to stop by the Microsoft Foundry booths to chat with folks from the Agent Framework team - there'll be stickers! ...

Building powerful AI agents is only half the story, running them safely in production is the real challenge. As customers adopt Microsoft Agent Framework for agent orchestration, a clear need has emerged for robust, built-in governance. In this post, Imran Siddique from the AGT team walks through how Agent Governance Toolkit pairs with Agent Framew...

Once you have your Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) agent or workflow happily running locally on your dev machine, it's time to decide how to deploy your agent to production, monitor it, evaluate it and version it. These decisions are just as important as getting the agent running. Hosted Agents in Foundry Agent Service is the easiest way to deploy ...

Today, we're thrilled to announce that Microsoft Agent Framework has reached version 1.0 for both .NET and Python. This is the production-ready release: stable APIs, and a commitment to long-term support. Whether you're building a single assistant or orchestrating a fleet of specialized agents, Agent Framework 1.0 gives you enterprise-grade multi-a...

We're thrilled to announce that Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. Release Candidate is an important milestone on the road to General Availability — it means the API surface is stable, and all features that we intend to release with version 1.0 are complete. Now is the time to move your Semantic...

Last week we announced Microsoft Agent Framework, you can find all the details: I'm immensely proud of the work the team that brought you AutoGen and Semantic Kernel have done to create Microsoft Agent Framework. We really think it's a great step forward in building AI agents and applications, building on all the learnings we'v...

The time is finally here, Semantic Kernel’s Agent framework is now Generally Available! Available today as part of Semantic Kernel 1.45 (.NET) and 1.27 (Python), the Semantic Kernel Agent framework makes it easier for agents to coordinate and dramatically reduces the code developers need to write to build amazing AI applications. What does Gener...

Three weeks ago we released the Release the Agents! SK Agents Framework RC1 | Semantic Kernel and we’ve been thrilled to see the momentum grow. Thank you to everyone who has shared feedback, filed issues, and started building with agents in Semantic Kernel—we’re seeing more developers try agents than ever before. Today, we’re declaring build 1.43 ...

Following on from our blog post a couple months ago: Microsoft’s Agentic AI Frameworks: AutoGen and Semantic Kernel, Microsoft’s agentic AI story is evolving at a steady pace. Both Azure AI Foundry’s Semantic Kernel and AI Frontier’s AutoGen are designed to empower developers to build advanced multi-agent systems. The AI Frontier’s team is charging...

Semantic Kernel Agent Framework Reaches Release Candidate 1 We're excited to announce that with the release of Semantic Kernel 1.40 (.NET) and 1.22.0 (Python), we're elevating the Semantic Kernel Agent Framework to Release Candidate 1. This marks a significant milestone in our journey toward providing a robust, versatile framework for building AI ...