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Agents2026-07-13 · source-backed
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 cloud-native workers, this closes a real gap: production agent orchestration without dropping to Python. The same framework's python-1.11.0 also stabilized its Skills API and added Progressive MCP Disclosure for on-demand tool schema loading.
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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...
Five capabilities moved onto Foundry deployments hosted on Azure rather than only Hosted on Anthropic. The practical change is residency: a US Data Zone Standard deployment can now run a web-search-backed research agent and connect to internal MCP servers without prompts leavi...
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...
If you wrote an MCP server before July, it's on a protocol shape the maintainers have already removed. Not deprecated-with-a-migration-window. Removed from the spec. MCP lead maintainers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky published an updated roadmap on August 22, and the re...
Released July 22, it bundles the tool-calling loop with iteration limits, per-call history persistence, context-window compaction, persistent todo/plan tracking, durable file memory across turns, progressively-loaded skills, web search, standing tool-approval rules with heuris...
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...
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