Tag: microsoft-agent-framework

Microsoft Agent Framework shipped Declarative Workflows 1.0 on July 23, 2026. Python's agent-framework-declarative 1.0.0 reaches parity with the .NET Microsoft.Agents.AI.Workflows.Declarative package, so multi-agent routing lives in YAML instead of C#.

Sequential for pipelines, concurrent for fan-out, group chat for moderated rounds, handoff for routing, magentic for open-ended planning. The C# builders and how to choose.

There is no single Skill type in the Microsoft Agent Framework, but you can package domain expertise as a reusable agent, reuse it in-process with AsAIFunction, and advertise it across frameworks as an A2A AgentSkill. Full walkthrough on Agent Framework 1.0 and .NET 11.

A step-by-step checklist for moving an existing Semantic Kernel 1.77 .NET app to Microsoft Agent Framework 1.13. Covers the Kernel-to-AIAgent rewrite, plugins-to-tools, thread-to-session, the KernelFunction compatibility bridge, DI changes, and the gotchas that bite mid-cutover.

Wire the Agent Governance Toolkit into a Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 agent so every tool call is checked against a YAML policy and written to a tamper-evident audit trail. Full C# middleware, policy file, and a hash-chained audit sink.

A step-by-step guide to taking a Microsoft Agent Framework agent from your laptop to a managed Foundry Hosted Agent: the C# host code, the azd deploy flow, identity, scaling, and the gotchas that bite in preview.

For a new .NET agent in 2026, start on Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0. Semantic Kernel is in maintenance mode. Here is the side-by-side and the one case where SK still wins.

All three hit 1.0. Pick Microsoft Agent Framework if you live in Azure and .NET, LangChain/LangGraph for vendor-neutral graph orchestration, LlamaIndex for retrieval-grounded agents.

If you came from Semantic Kernel looking for 'skills,' the Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 calls them function tools and builds every one from AIFunctionFactory.Create. Here are the three ways to author one in C# -- an inline lambda, a named method, or a class of related tools -- plus what the declarative YAML 'file' approach can and cannot do.

Microsoft Agent Framework hits 1.0 with stable APIs, multi-provider connectors, multi-agent orchestration, and A2A/MCP interop. Here is what it looks like in practice on .NET 10.