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You can also expose the agents as MCP, AGUI and so it can be a tool you integrate with other AI platforms.
Given Microsoft’s track record, come back in a few years and see if it still lives. > It brings together and extends ideas from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen projects, combining their strengths while adding new capabilities … and giving a hint what will happen to the aforementioned projects. — It’s a shame when someone’s promotion is tied to how many new things they ship. — > To learn more about migrating from either S…
I remember when "Microsoft Agent" meant the APIs that gave rise to Clippy, Rover, and (regrettably) even Bonzi Buddy. The bitter irony is, Microsoft has since embrace-extend-extinguished Bonzi Buddy spyware tech, building it right into Windows 11. So... they're moving onward to the future I guess?
I've toyed with the idea of hooking up something like Copilot to Clippy to make an "agent" using the Microsoft Agents API. Unfortunately, the API died in Windows Vista, and was only widely available in Windows XP at the latest. API documentation seems rather sparse too, though it looks like an LLM somewhere found a pirated book or something with example code because generated code seems to understand the API and its…
Reimplementations exist too: https://mklab.eu.org/clippy/
nice, are there other frameworks that are similar or better?
I have a repository here with similar examples across all those frameworks: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/python-ai-agent-frameworks-...
I started comparing their features in more details in a gist, but it's WIP: https://gist.github.com/pamelafox/c6318cb5d367731ce7ec01340e...
I can flesh that out if it's helpful. I find it fascinating to see where agent frameworks converge and diverge. Generally, the frameworks are converging, which is great for developers, since we can learn a concept in one framework and apply it to another, but there are definitely differences as you get into the edge cases and production-level sophistication.
Why throw in .net in the mix? That alone could squish all interest.
What’s the issue with net? It’s a modern cross platform open source language with very good performance
Then I'll need to install .NET runtime first, which I know I won't ever use for anything else.
Then it's a hard no, unless I really don't have a choice (e.g. a different agent).
Curious what people see in these frameworks in 202(6). My experience has been that an agent is a simple while loop over tools/instructions/dialog. More complex integrations generally lie in the tools/context retrieval - but those have so far been so domain specific that it’s not worth pulling in a framework.