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Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and Hosted Agents Reach General Availability
BY
Steef-Jan Wiggers
SOURCE
InfoQ - Architecture & Design - News
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Microsoft’s Agent Framework now ships a supported runtime. Build 2026 brought the Agent Harness, the GitHub Copilot and Claude Agent SDK connectors, and the orchestration patterns to stable release; the harness and …
Microsoft’s Agent Framework now ships a supported runtime. Build 2026 brought the Agent Harness, the GitHub Copilot and Claude Agent SDK connectors, and the orchestration patterns to stable release; the harness and Foundry Hosted Agents have since reached GA. The shift is from an SDK for building agents to a governed platform for running them. By Steef-Jan Wiggers