Microsoft releases Agent Framework Harness to package planning, memory, and approvals for business agents
Microsoft says its new Agent Framework Harness is a stable, batteries-included runtime for building agents in Python and .NET. The harness wraps a model with planning, function invocation, per-call history persistence, compaction, a persistent todo list, file memory, skills, tool approval, telemetry, and optional web search. Microsoft frames it as a way to turn a chat model into a production-ready agent that can handle long-running work such as research, data analysis, and task automation. The company also says the harness is fully customizable, so teams can keep the defaults or remove and replace individual components as needed. For businesses, the release points to a more standardized path for deploying agents into internal workflows without assembling every orchestration layer from scratch.
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Originally published 10/6/2026, 11:03:58 AM