Microsoft Agent Framework releasing version 1.0

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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 | http

Published 2026-04-16 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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