Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and Hosted Agents Reach General Availability
Microsoft's Agent Framework now ships a supported runtime. Build 2026 brought the Agent Harness, the GitHub Copilot and Claude Agent SDK connectors, and the orchestration patterns to stable release; the harness and Foundry Hosted Agents have since reached GA. The shift is from an SDK for building agents to a governed platform for running them. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
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Published: 3 August 2026
Source: InfoQ AI/ML
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 4 August 2026
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