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9 Jun

Shawn Henry 1 min read

In case you missed it, the Command Line blog was launched last week and has a great article (by yours truly) about our SDK design philosophy with Microsoft Agent Framework. Check it out: Inside the Microsoft Agent Framework: How we designed a layered SDK Developers are moving quickly from simple chat-based AI experiences to […] The post ICYMI: Inside the…

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3 Jun

Shawn Henry 6 min read

Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026: Agent Harness, Hosted Agents, CodeAct, and more BUILD 2026 is underway, and the Microsoft Agent Framework team have a round-up of exciting announcements! Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) is our open-source SDK and runtime for building AI agents and multi-agent workflows, with the same concepts and APIs across .NET and […] The post Microsoft Agent…

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1 Jun

Shawn Henry 2 min read

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 – […] The post Microsoft Agent…

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22 May

Sergey Menshykh 8 min read

Python developers working with Agent Skills can now author skills as files on disk, as inline Python code, or as reusable classes – and mix them freely through composable source classes that handle discovery, filtering, and deduplication. A skill living in your local repository, one installed from your organization’s internal package index, and a quick […] The post Agent Skills…

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20 May

Eduard van Valkenburg, Shruti Tople 11 min read

Prompt injection is the #1 risk on the OWASP LLM Top 10, and most agents in production today defend against it with one of two heuristics: a defensive system prompt, or a hand-rolled allowlist. Neither is deterministic. Both fail silently the day someone slips a [SYSTEM OVERRIDE] line into an issue body, an email, or […] The post Stop prompt…

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14 May

Imran Siddique, Shawn Henry 7 min read

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 Framework […] The post Governance at…

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8 May

Jacob Alber 10 min read

A Tour of the Handoff Orchestration Pattern Most multi-agent systems start out simple: a router agent receives a user request, picks the right specialist, and forwards the conversation. As long as each specialist can complete its task in one pass, that model works fine. The first time it breaks is when an agent needs more: […] The post A Tour…

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6 May

Tao Chen, Shawn Henry 4 min read

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 […] The post From Local…

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28 Apr

Sergey Menshykh 7 min read

As organizations move from single-agent prototypes to multi-agent production systems, the ability for agents to communicate reliably across platforms and organizational boundaries becomes essential. With the release of A2A Protocol v1.0 and updated support in the Microsoft Agent Framework, you can now connect and expose your AI agents using a stable, production-ready interoperability standard – […] The post A2A v1…

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24 Apr

Wes Steyn 11 min read

When people talk about building AI agents, they usually focus on models, tools, and prompts. In practice, one of the most important architectural decisions is much simpler: where does the conversation history live? Imagine a user asks your agent a complex question, clicks “try again,” explores two different answers in parallel, and then comes back […] The post Chat History…

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