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Building with Microsoft Agent Framework

A 14-part guide. Start at Part 1, or jump to any part below.

The parts

  1. You Have Built This Agent Loop Three Times. Microsoft Just Ended That.
  2. Your AI Agent Can Talk. Here Is How to Give It Hands.
  3. Your AI Agent Has a Session. That Does Not Mean It Can Survive a Crash.
  4. Your Agent Remembers the Conversation. It Still Forgets Everything It Learned
  5. Your AI Agent's Memory Is Growing. So Is Its Context Window Bill.
  6. Your Agent Runs Whatever the Model Decides. Middleware Is How You Watch Every Step.
  7. Your AI Agent Wants to Write a File. Make It Ask First.
  8. Stop Hand-Assembling Your AI Agent. The Harness Already Does It.
  9. Your Agent Does Not Need Every Skill Memorized. It Needs to Know Where to Look.
  10. It Worked When You Watched. Observability Is How You Know It Works When You Do Not.
  11. The Harness Trusted the Model's Plan. A Workflow Graph Does Not Have To.
  12. Five Ways to Wire Three Agents, and the One Mistake That Sinks Most of Them
  13. Your AI Workflow Crashed Right Before a Human Approved It. Now What?
  14. Your Multi-Agent Workflow Works. Now Give It an Address.