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  "id": 15999,
  "url": "https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/agent-framework-harness-ga",
  "title": "Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and Hosted Agents Reach General Availability",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Steef-Jan Wiggers",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": "microsoft",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-03T10:30:00.000Z",
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  "source_slug": "x-infoq-ai-ml",
  "source_name": "InfoQ AI/ML",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.infoq.com/ai-ml-data-eng/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15999",
  "original_url": "https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/agent-framework-harness-ga",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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