Agents

MCP Apps - Bringing UI Capabilities To MCP Clients

MCP Apps is now live as the first official MCP extension — tools can return interactive UI components that render directly in the conversation.…

The 2026 MCP Roadmap

The updated Model Context Protocol roadmap for 2026: transport scalability, agent communication, governance maturation, and enterprise readiness, plus guidance …

Understanding MCP Extensions

A practical guide to MCP extensions: how they layer new capabilities on top of the core protocol, and patterns the community is already using.…

Tool Annotations as Risk Vocabulary: What Hints Can and Can't Do

MCP tool annotations were introduced nearly a year ago as a way for servers to describe the behavior of their tools — whether they’re read-only, destructi…

Expanding the MCP Maintainer Team

Updates to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) governance team: a new Lead Maintainer and an addition to the Core Maintainer group as the open-source project conti…

Chat History Storage Patterns in Microsoft Agent Framework

When people talk about building AI agents, they usually focus on models, tools, and prompts. In practice, one of the most important architectural decisions is m…

A2A v1 Is Here: Cross-Platform Agent Communication in Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET

As organizations move from single-agent prototypes to multi-agent production systems, the ability for agents to communicate reliably across platforms and organi…

From Local to Production: Deploy Your Microsoft Agent Framework Agent with Foundry Hosted Agents

Once you have your Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) agent or workflow happily running locally on your dev machine, it’s time to decide how to deploy your a…

A Tour of Handoff Orchestration Pattern

A Tour of the Handoff Orchestration Pattern Most multi-agent systems start out simple: a router agent receives a user request, picks the right specialist, and f…

Governance at the Speed of Agents: Microsoft Agent Framework and Agent Governance Toolkit, Better Together

Building powerful AI agents is only half the story, running them safely in production is the real challenge. As customers adopt Microsoft Agent Framework for ag…

python-1.5.0

Stop prompt injection from hijacking your agent, new security capabilities now released within Agent Framework

Prompt injection is the #1 risk on the OWASP LLM Top 10, and most agents in production today defend against it with one of two heuristics: a defensive system pr…

The 2026-07-28 MCP Specification Release Candidate

The release candidate for the next Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification is now available: a stateless protocol core, the Extensions framework, Tasks, MCP …

python-1.6.0

Agent Skills for Python: File, Code, and Class – Composed in One Provider

Python developers working with Agent Skills can now author skills as files on disk, as inline Python code, or as reusable classes – and mix them freely th…

langgraph-sdk==0.3.15

langgraph==1.2.2

python-1.7.0

langgraph-sdk==0.4.0

langgraph-cli==0.4.27

Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026

BUILD 2026 begins on Tuesday, June 2, and there will be tons of exciting announcements from the Microsoft Agent Framework team, Microsoft Foundry, and all thing…

langgraph-sdk==0.4.1

langgraph-sdk==0.4.2

langgraph==1.2.3

dotnet-1.6.2

dotnet-1.7.0

dotnet-1.8.0

langgraph==1.2.4

Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026: Agent Harness, Hosted Agents, CodeAct, and more

Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026: Agent Harness, Hosted Agents, CodeAct, and more BUILD 2026 is underway, and the Microsoft Agent Framework team have a r…

dotnet-1.9.0