Deployment & Scaling · Practitioner
Microsoft Agent Framework: Multi-Agent Orchestration in Code
The successor to Semantic Kernel and AutoGen. When declarative agents stop being enough, this is the open-source framework you write orchestration in - and host on Foundry.
- 55 min lesson
- advanced level
- Azure AI Track
- Narrated presentation
What you’ll learn
- Agent Framework consolidates Semantic Kernel and AutoGen; new work should target it
- Sequential, concurrent, group chat, handoff and typed workflow orchestration patterns
- Write orchestration in the framework, host it as a Foundry hosted agent
- Model Context Protocol support keeps tool investments portable
- Bounded turns, termination conditions and per-run token budgets
- OpenTelemetry spans to Application Insights for multi-agent debugging
- Prefer a deterministic workflow over a committee of agents when steps are known
Inside this lesson
A narrated, slide-by-slide presentation with 1 prediction exercise, 1 knowledge check, 3 videos. You answer as you go, and the platform checks your work.