Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and Hosted Agents Reach General Availability
Microsoft's Agent Framework now ships a supported runtime. Build 2026 brought the Agent Harness, the GitHub Copilot and Claude Agent SDK connectors, and the orchestration patterns to stable release; the harness and Foundry Hosted Agents have since reached GA. The shift is from an SDK for building agents to a governed platform for running them. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Microsoft has officially moved the Agent Framework from the SDK stage to a supported production runtime, reaching 1.0 general availability on April 2, 2026. The Agent Harness and Foundry Hosted Agents, both crucial components for running and governing agents, have also reached general availability. This development gives platform teams a way to run and govern agents, providing a stable runtime across local development, containers, and hosted deployment.
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