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Microsoft Agent Framework has reached version 1.0 — making production-grade agent development feel like normal software development. In this episode, Shawn Henry and Rong Lu walk through what’s new in the v1.0 GA release: stable APIs, multi-agent orchestration with handoff patterns, and support for Python and .NET. They also demo Foundry Toolkit for VS Code (formerly AI Toolkit), now GA — a unified IDE experience for building agents with a single “Create Agent” entry point, Agent Inspector for F5 debugging, evaluation-as-tests in pytest, and deep GitHub Copilot integration. See the complete developer journey from local development to Foundry deployment without glue code.
✅ Chapters:
00:15 MAF – Microsoft Agent Framework GA Announcement
02:10 Demo – Getting started with MAF using VS Code Extension
02:44 Demo – using the new Foundry/MAF Skills with Copilot
04:10 Demo – Building a Multi-Agent workflow using Copilot
06:36 Demo – Debugging a Multi-Agent workflow using Agent Inspector
12:15 What improved on MAF since Public preview and What’s coming
16:54 How to Contribute and Getting Started
✅ Resources:
Foundry Toolkit for VS Code: https://aka.ms/foundrytk
Microsoft Agent Framework on GitHub: https://aka.ms/AgentFramework
AI Agents for Beginners: https://aka.ms/ai-agents-beginners
Blog post: https://aka.ms/DeployingAgents-blog
MAF 1.0 Announcement: https://aka.ms/AgentFramework1.0-blog
📌 Let’s connect:
Jorge Arteiro | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgearteiro
Shawn Henry | https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-patrick-henry/
Rong Lu | https://www.linkedin.com/in/rongl/
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