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Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft’s framework for building agents and coordinated workflows in Python and .NET, with provider integrations and explicit application orchestration.

Agent frameworksSDK / LibraryMulti-agent orchestrationWorkflow automationMulti-provider
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Overview

Research summary

Microsoft Agent Framework supplies libraries for implementing agents and workflows around language models and external tools. The repository contains Python and .NET components, allowing applications to define agent behavior, coordinate multiple steps, and integrate supported model and service providers. It is a development framework rather than a single ready-to-use coding agent.

Workflows can combine agent reasoning with explicit programmatic control, which is useful when applications require more structure than an open-ended conversation. Microsoft positions it as the direction for new development following AutoGen’s transition to maintenance mode, while migration remains an application-specific engineering task. Operators still need to configure credentials, tool permissions, persistence, deployment, and evaluation for their workloads.

The repository is MIT licensed, and use of external models or hosted services is governed independently of that code license.

Repository summary

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2026-09-16
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Agent frameworksSDK / LibraryMulti-agent orchestrationWorkflow automationMulti-provider

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Licence scope

MIT

Implementation

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Implementation details

Python and .NET agent and workflow libraries

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Python
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source

Recorded interfaces and capabilities

SDK / LibraryMulti-agent orchestrationWorkflow automationMulti-provider

Licence scope

MIT

Repository

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microsoft/agent-framework ↗

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13,547
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Last push
2026-09-16
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2026-10-06
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Research date
2026-09-16
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2026-10-06

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