# Microsoft previews Microsoft Agent Framework

> Microsoft announced the public preview of Microsoft Agent Framework, an open-source SDK and runtime for multi-agent orchestration. The company positioned it alongside Azure AI Foundry capabilities for building, observing, and governing agent systems. The announcement described a framework that combines ideas from AutoGen and Semantic Kernel and emphasized workflow composition, agent-to-agent coordination, observability, and governance for enterprise scenarios.

Canonical: https://hypler.com/ai-news/microsoft-agent-framework-preview-2025
Hypler publication: 2026-10-06
Original source date: 2025-10-01
Publisher: Microsoft
Article kind: source-briefing
Category: Developer tools
Tags: Microsoft, agents, orchestration, Azure AI Foundry

## Engineering relevance

Multi-agent frameworks can simplify coordination while making failure modes harder to trace. A framework announcement is a prompt to define responsibility boundaries before adding agents: who selects tools, which agent may act, how state flows, and where a human can intervene. Observability features help only when teams decide what behavior, evidence, and exceptions they need to retain.

## Framework preview

Microsoft described Microsoft Agent Framework as an open-source SDK and runtime in public preview. The company said it was intended to simplify multi-agent orchestration and combined approaches from AutoGen and Semantic Kernel. Its examples focused on composing workflows and coordinating multiple specialized agents.

## Foundry connection

The announcement paired the framework with Azure AI Foundry capabilities for observability and governance. Microsoft framed these additions as a response to fragmented tooling and the difficulty of managing responsible agent behavior. The page describes a preview offering, not an assurance that every multi-agent workflow is governed correctly by default.

## Original source

- [Microsoft](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-microsoft-agent-framework/)

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