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 for what is planned in version 1.0, setting the stage for an upcoming general availability release. For developers building AI-powered assistants or complex agentic systems, this release is a significant step toward a unified, production-ready toolset.
The Microsoft Agent Framework is an open-source development framework designed to build, orchestrate, and deploy AI agents with a consistent programming model across .NET and Python. It succeeds earlier efforts such as Semantic Kernel and AutoGen, consolidating agent creation, orchestration primitives, and…