Microsoft Agent Framework: Open-Source Development Kit for AI Agents
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Summary
Microsoft Agent Framework is an open-source development kit for building AI agents and multi-agent workflows for .NET and Python. It combines and extends ideas from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen projects, providing a unified foundation for AI agent development. The framework offers two primary categories of capabilities along with foundational building blocks including model clients for chat completions, agent threads for state management, and context providers.
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· 5 pulledMicrosoft Agent Framework is an open-source development kit for building AI agents and multi-agent workflows for .NET and Python.
It brings together and extends ideas from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen projects, combining their strengths while adding new capabilities.
Built by the same teams, it is the unified foundation for building AI agents going forward.
Agent Framework offers two primary categories of capabilities.
The framework also provides foundational building blocks, including model clients (chat completions and responses), an agent thread for state management, context providers.
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