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Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework

Tech · Releases · Wed, July 15, 2026

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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 back

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Jun 30, 2026[Launched] Generally Available: Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry3 mo ago
Jul 1, 2026[Launched] Generally Available: Document PII NextGen Playground in Azure AI Language3 mo ago
Jul 15, 2026Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework2 mo ago
Jul 15, 2026Announcing: Multi-agent orchestration patterns including Magentic in Microsoft Agent Framework2 mo ago
Aug 17, 2026[Launched] Generally Available: Dragon Copilot Physician Apps and Agents on Microsoft Marketplace39 days ago
Aug 26, 2026[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SRE Agent 30-Day Trial30 days ago
Aug 26, 2026[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SRE Agent VNet Integration30 days ago
Aug 26, 2026[In preview] Public Preview: Introducing Live Reports for Azure SRE Agent30 days ago
Sep 1, 2026[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Copilot Observability Agent supports Basic and Auxiliary table plans24 days ago
Sep 8, 2026[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension Framework17 days ago
Sep 10, 2026[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Copilot Troubleshooting Agent15 days ago
Sep 18, 2026[Launched] Generally Available: Publishing Microsoft Foundry agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams7 days ago
Sep 18, 2026[Launched] Generally Available: Enable and disable controls for Microsoft Foundry agents in Agent 3657 days ago
Sep 18, 2026[In preview] Public Preview: Foundry Routines in Foundry Agent Service7 days ago
Sep 18, 2026[In preview] Public Preview: Network egress controls for hosted agents in Microsoft Foundry7 days ago

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