Microsoft Agent Framework has reached version 1.0 — making production-grade agent development feel like normal software development. In this episode, Shawn Henry and Rong Lu walk through what's new in the v1.0 GA release: stable APIs, multi-agent orchestration with handoff patterns, and support for Python and .NET. They also demo Foundry Toolkit for VS Code (formerly AI Toolkit), now GA — a unified IDE experience for building agents with a single "Create Agent" entry point, Agent Inspector for F5 debugging, evaluation-as-tests in pytest, and deep GitHub Copilot integration. See the complete developer journey from local development to Foundry deployment without glue code.

✅ Chapters:
00:15 MAF - Microsoft Agent Framework GA Announcement
02:10 Demo - Getting started with MAF using VS Code Extension
02:44 Demo - using the new Foundry/MAF Skills with Copilot
04:10 Demo - Building a Multi-Agent workflow using Copilot
06:36 Demo - Debugging a Multi-Agent workflow using Agent Inspector
12:15 What improved on MAF since Public preview and What's coming
16:54 How to Contribute and Getting Started

✅ Resources:
Foundry Toolkit for VS Code: https://aka.ms/foundrytk
Microsoft Agent Framework on GitHub: https://aka.ms/AgentFramework
AI Agents for Beginners: https://aka.ms/ai-agents-beginners
Blog post: https://aka.ms/DeployingAgents-blog
MAF 1.0 Announcement: https://aka.ms/AgentFramework1.0-blog

📌 Let's connect:
Jorge Arteiro | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgearteiro
Shawn Henry | https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-patrick-henry/
Rong Lu | https://www.linkedin.com/in/rongl/


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Microsoft has released version 1.0 (GA) of the Microsoft Agent Framework, its consolidated platform for building production-ready multi-agent AI systems. The release includes a VS Code extension with two built-in Copilot skills — one for agent framework guidance and one for Microsoft Foundry deployment — enabling AI-assisted code generation, debugging, and migration from other frameworks like Semantic Kernel and AutoGen. Key new features include a visual Agent Inspector for debugging multi-agent workflows, fan-in/fan-out and map-reduce parallelization patterns, support for long-running resumable/checkpointed workflows, and chat history management strategies for memory control. The framework officially supports Python and .NET/C#, with parity as a stated goal. Community engagement is encouraged via GitHub, Discord, and weekly office hours.

Microsoft Agent Framework releasing version 1.0