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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 heuristic auto-approval, and OpenTelemetry (Microsoft). One call: create_harness_agent() with FoundryChatClient in Python, or AsHarnessAgent() on IChatClient in .NET. Everything's on by default and individually removable through HarnessAgentOptions. Even if you never adopt it, read the option list as a gap analysis against your own harness.
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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,...
Every coding agent ships a permission prompt. The premise is that a human looking at the command is the control. That premise just got measured, and it doesn't hold. Scale X published results on August 5 from 40,000+ plays of its agent-permission game covering 409,000+ individ...
Every coding agent ships a permission prompt. The premise is that a human looking at the command is the control. That premise just got measured, and it doesn't hold. Scale X published results on August 5 from 40,000+ plays of its agent-permission game covering 409,000+ individ...
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...
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...
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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