Microsoft Agent Framework – The Successor to Symantec Kernel

🔹 Feature: Microsoft Agent Framework – The Successor to Symantec Kernel

🔹 What It Does: Developers can create intelligent, secure, and scalable agent-based applications

What It Gives You:

✅ Modularity: Workflows can be broken down into smaller, reusable components, making it easier to manage and update individual parts of the process.

✅ Agent Integration: Workflows can incorporate multiple AI agents alongside non-agentic components, allowing for sophisticated orchestration of tasks.

✅ Type Safety: Strong typing ensures messages flow correctly between components, with comprehensive validation that prevents runtime errors.

✅ Flexible Flow: Graph-based architecture allows for intuitive modeling of complex workflows with executors and edges. Conditional routing, parallel processing, and dynamic execution paths are all supported.

✅ External Integration: Built-in request/response patterns enable seamless integration with external APIs and support human-in-the-loop scenarios.

✅ Checkpointing: Save workflow states via checkpoints, enabling recovery and resumption of long-running processes on the server side.

✅ Multi-Agent Orchestration: Built-in patterns for coordinating multiple AI agents, including sequential, concurrent, hand-off, and Magentic.

✅ Composability: Workflows can be nested or combined to create more complex processes, allowing for scalability and adaptability.

More info: https://github.com/microsoft/agent-framework