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Both predecessors enter maintenance-only mode. The unified framework adds graph-based multi-agent orchestration, session state management, type-safe middleware, telemetry, and interoperability with A2A, AG-UI, and MCP protocols. Available in .NET and Python. Source
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Microsoft shipped the most significant framework consolidation of 2026: Agent Framework RC for both .NET and Python, merging AutoGen's agent abstractions with Semantic Kernel's enterprise features into a single programming model. Graph-based orchestration (sequential, concurre...
Released July 10, joining .NET and Python, with providers for Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, A2A, plus MCP support, human-in-the-loop approvals, checkpointed multi-agent workflows, and OpenTelemetry tracing (Microsoft Go Blog). For Go teams running services and clou...
July 23, agent-framework-declarative went 1.0.0 for Python, matching the already-stable .NET package (Microsoft). Workflows author in YAML with Power Fx formulas for state and expressions, conditions, loops and jumps, sequential and conditional routing, function tools, MCP and...
Microsoft's Agent Framework blog confirms the MCP 2026-07-28 revision is in release candidate with a final lock on July 28, while A2A passed 150 adopting orgs with production SDKs in Python, JS, Java, Go, and .NET. The next two weeks are your window to review MCP breaking chan...
On June 16–17, Google extended its A2A interoperability push with a standard for how agents discover available resources and tools, the same week Microsoft's Work IQ went GA with A2A plus remote MCP. It's a multi-vendor race to standardize the plumbing. Design against the inte...
LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Microsoft Agent Framework, and Google ADK, presented at Black Hat (The Register). Insecure deserialization, SSRF, path traversal, use-after-free. That's the point: prompt-controlled content crosses into trusted framework logic, and then i...
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