Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework

Vendor: Microsoft
Product: Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Agent Framework
Type: Availability
Announcement date: 2026-07-15
Effective date: Date not published
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Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for Agent Harness, the production runtime for agents built with the framework. Customers running pilots on the preview harness can now move the same agent code into production with backwards compatibi AI + machine learning Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Build Feature Announcement

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Who is affected: The audience described by the Microsoft update is represented by: Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for Agent Harness, the production runtime for agents built with the framework. Customers running pilots on the preview harness can now move the same agent code into production with backwards compatibi AI + machine learning Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Build Feature Announcement

Why it matters: The change matters because the official source describes: Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for Agent Harness, the production runtime for agents built with the framework. Customers running pilots on the preview harness can now move the same agent code into production with backwards compatibi AI + machine learning Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Build Feature Announcement

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2026-08-30T06:15:07.776356+00:00
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Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for Agent Harness, the production runtime for agents built with the framework. Customers running pilots on the preview harness can now move the same agent code into production with backwards compatibi AI + machine learning Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Build Feature Announcement
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Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for Agent Harness, the production runtime for agents built with the framework. Customers running pilots on the preview harness can now move the same agent code into production with backwards compatibi AI + machine learning Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Build Feature Announcement
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Product Microsoft Agent Framework
Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for Agent Harness, the production runtime for agents built with the framework. Customers running pilots on the preview harness can now move the same agent code into production with backwards compatibi AI + machine learning Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Build Feature Announcement
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Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for Agent Harness, the production runtime for agents built with the framework. Customers running pilots on the preview harness can now move the same agent code into production with backwards compatibi AI + machine learning Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Build Feature Announcement
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