Microsoft has announced the preview release of Microsoft Agent Framework, an open-source software development kit designed to simplify the creation and deployment of artificial intelligence agents for developers across all skill levels, as reported in official blog posts from the company’s development teams.
Microsoft has announced the preview release of Microsoft Agent Framework, an open-source software development kit designed to simplify the creation and deployment of artificial intelligence agents for developers across all skill levels, as reported in official blog posts from the company’s development teams.
The framework represents a significant consolidation effort, as stated by Microsoft engineers, unifying capabilities from two previously separate projects: Semantic Kernel, which provided enterprise-ready foundations, and AutoGen, developed by Microsoft Research for experimental multi-agent orchestration. According to the announcement, developers previously had to choose between innovation and production stability, a limitation the new framework aims to eliminate.
As noted in the technical documentation, Microsoft Agent Framework enables developers to build AI agents with minimal code requirements. The company demonstrated this simplicity with examples showing functional agents created in fewer than twenty lines of code. « Building AI agents shouldn’t be rocket science », as stated in the .NET blog announcement, emphasizing the framework’s focus on accessibility for developers without specialized AI expertise.
