Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This milestone indicates that the API surface is stable and feature-complete f

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Microsoft's Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python, signaling a stable, feature-complete API ahead of general availability. The framework consolidates earlier efforts like Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single SDK for building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents. Key capabilities include simple agent creation in a few lines of code, type-safe function tools, graph-based multi-agent workflows with sequential and concurrent orchestration, human-in-the-loop support, streaming responses, checkpointing, and MCP interoperability. Packages remain pre-release on NuGet and PyPI, and migration guides from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen are being prepared. Developers can explore examples and source code on the official docs site and GitHub.

Microsoft Agent Framework RC Simplifies Agentic Development in .NET and Python