Microsoft has officially consolidated its fragmented agent landscape with the release of microsoft/agent-framework, a unified Python and .NET platform for building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents at scale. The framework brings together capabilities that were previously spread across AutoGen and Semantic Kernel — including graph-based workflows, streaming support, checkpointing, human-in-the-loop

Microsoft has quietly published microsoft/agent-framework on GitHub, and it looks like the company's most decisive move yet toward a unified agent runtime. The new framework supports both Python and .NET, bringing graph-based workflows, streaming, checkpointing, human-in-the-loop controls, and time-travel debugging under a single roof. Crucially, the repository