Microsoft Agent Framework Overview
Microsoft Agent Framework is a set of developer libraries for creating individual AI agents, opinionated long-running agents (Harness), and graph-based multi-agent workflows. It supports multiple LLM providers including Microsoft Foundry, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, and Ollama, along with tool calling, MCP servers, planning, memory, checkpointing, and human-in-the-loop capabilities. The framework targets developers building production-grade agentic applications in .NET, Python, and Go.
FreeMITWebCLIAPISelf-hosted
112stars
55forks
8features
2025since
Overview
8 featuresMicrosoft Agent Framework Overview sits in PulseGate's Multi-agent & orchestration category. It focuses on building reliable, multi-step AI agents and agent workflows that integrate LLMs, tools, memory, and human-in-the-loop controls across multiple programming languages. Microsoft Agent Framework Overview is an open-source project aimed at developers. It is available for free. It runs on the web, the command line, and API, and it can be self-hosted.
Microsoft builds and maintains Microsoft Agent Framework Overview, and it first shipped in 2025. Development happens publicly on GitHub with 112 stars. Key capabilities include multi-agent workflows, tool calling, and MCP server support. It exposes integrations via an MCP server and a public API.
Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.
- Multi-agent workflows
- Tool calling
- MCP server support
- Context compaction
- Human-in-the-loop
- Checkpointing
- Observability
- Type-safe routing
Tags
ai-agentsmulti-agentagent-workflowsllm-orchestrationdotnet-python-go
AI capabilities
TextCode
Inference: Hybrid
Built with & integrations
Hosting
Azure
AI providers
openailocal_ossanthropicmultiple
Connectors
MCPAPI
Runs on
BrowserCLIAPI-onlySelf-hosted
Detected from
- Azure
- x-azure-ref header
- openai
- bgpt- in the HTML
- local_oss
- bollama in the HTML
Trust & compliance
License
MIT
Verified signals
Legal
Indexing history
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- Indexed6 Aug · 03:39 UTCmicrosoft/spec-to-agents verified against its public sourceSource: PulseGate · Open
Frequently asked questions about Microsoft Agent Framework Overview
- What does Microsoft Agent Framework Overview do?
- Microsoft Agent Framework Overview focuses on building reliable, multi-step AI agents and agent workflows that integrate LLMs, tools, memory, and human-in-the-loop controls across multiple programming languages. It is catalogued under Multi-agent & orchestration on PulseGate.
- Who should use Microsoft Agent Framework Overview?
- Microsoft Agent Framework Overview is an open-source project built for developers.
- Is Microsoft Agent Framework Overview free?
- Yes — Microsoft Agent Framework Overview is free to use.
- What platforms does Microsoft Agent Framework Overview run on?
- Microsoft Agent Framework Overview runs on the web, the command line, and API. It can also be self-hosted.
- Is Microsoft Agent Framework Overview still active?
- Unverified. Microsoft Agent Framework Overview has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
- What projects are similar to Microsoft Agent Framework Overview?
- Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include agent-framework, agent-framework-azure-ai, and agent-framework-a2a.agent-frameworkagent-framework-azure-aiagent-framework-a2a
- Who makes Microsoft Agent Framework Overview?
- Microsoft Agent Framework Overview is developed by Microsoft, based in the United States.
- When did Microsoft Agent Framework Overview launch?
- Microsoft Agent Framework Overview first shipped in 2025.
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