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Microsoft's Agent Framework Harness Reaches General Availability, Shifting Focus From SDK to Runtime
Microsoft's Agent Framework Harness and Foundry Hosted Agents have reached general availability, shifting focus from SDK to runtime. The open-source harness wraps models to enable tool use, multi-step tasks, and persistence, running as one binary across environments. A VILA-Lab analysis of Claude Code suggests harness infrastructure dominates agent codebases, while Microsoft's benchmark highlights built-in safety controls.
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