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Public story · 2026-03-19 · source-backed
The consolidation of Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single framework reached RC2 for Python, with GA targeted soon. Stable API surface with renamed core types (ChatAgent→Agent, ChatMessage→Message), long-running agent support, background responses, and streaming code interpreter deltas. Migration guides from both predecessor frameworks are published with .NET and Python parity. If you're on either Semantic Kernel or AutoGen, migration planning should start now. GitHub
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API surface locked, all v1.0 features complete. Migration guides for AutoGen and Semantic Kernel projects published. Final window before v1.0 becomes the canonical Microsoft agent standard. Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft's update ships a new Agent (Preview) in Copilot Chat built on the SDK powering Copilot CLI, explicitly so behavior stays consistent across CLI, the GitHub app, VS Code and Visual Studio (Visual Studio Blog). It ships curated .NET and Azure skills you enable selective...
Published August 4, the GitHub Copilot Agent for Agent Framework ships as Microsoft.Agents.AI.GitHub.Copilot for .NET 8+ and agent-framework-github-copilot for Python 3.11+ (Microsoft). Every shell command, file write, URL fetch, and custom tool routes through a user-defined p...
Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
I check Product Hunt maybe once a week and usually regret it. Today's board is worth reading as market structure. The July 30 leaderboard: SKI at 277 upvotes (free voice input for Claude Code and Codex). AI Search Console at 249 (prompt analytics and citation mapping). Memmy A...
InfoQ reported the Agent Framework Harness and Foundry Hosted Agents reaching GA in .NET and Python on August 3, bundling function invocation, per-call history persistence, context compaction, todo lists with plan/execute modes, file memory, skills, web search, tool approval,...
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