{
  "id": 80416,
  "title": "Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and Hosted Agents Reach General Availability",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/microsoft-agent-framework-harness-and-hosted-agents-reach-general",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-03T10:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "InfoQ",
    "slug": "infoq",
    "url": "https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/agent-framework-harness-ga/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}