Microsoft Agent Developer Resources

• Agents hub — Microsoft's central resource for agentic computing: ecosystem overview, key concepts, and links to plan, build, adopt, and improve agents
• Architecting agent solutions — enterprise-grade principles and patterns for building secure, reliable agents: fit-for-purpose, operability, and trust pillars
• Design guidelines for agents — UX design framework for declarative and custom engine agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot, covering entry points, customization, and Adaptive Cards
• Microsoft 365 Agents SDK — documentation | GitHub
• Copilot Studio SDK — documentation | NuGet
• VS Code extension for Copilot Studio — documentation | VS Code Marketplace
• What is Microsoft Foundry? — overview of the platform for building and deploying AI agents
• Microsoft Foundry — documentation hub | portal
• Foundry SDK overview — unified entry point for model inference, agents, and evaluation via azure-ai-projects
• Azure OpenAI Service — foundation models powering most Microsoft agent scenarios
• Agent archetype framework — shared vocabulary for designing agents using the 3Cs model: categories, capabilities, and components

Overview

• Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot — overview of all extensibility options: declarative agents, plugins, and connectors
• Copilot Developer Camp — hands-on labs for building Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility solutions
• Introducing the Agent Store — build, publish, and discover agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Work IQ: Production-ready intelligence for every agent — ground agents in permission-aware Microsoft 365 context, organizational signals, and governed tools
• Build collaborative agents where work happens — Build 2026 updates for interaction patterns and tooling that make agents work naturally in Teams and Microsoft 365

Declarative agents

• Declarative agents overview — build focused, role-specific agents grounded in your data using JSON manifests

Plugins

• Plugins overview — extend Copilot with custom actions and API integrations
• API plugins — connect Copilot to live data and actions via REST APIs

Graph connectors

• Microsoft Graph connectors for Copilot — bring external content into Microsoft 365 for Copilot to reason over
• Build your own Graph connector — index external data sources with the Microsoft Graph API

Microsoft Agent Framework

• Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework — the open-source engine for agentic AI apps (1.0 GA, Apr 2026)
• Microsoft Agent Framework — documentation | GitHub
• From Local to Production: The Complete Developer Journey — MAF 1.0 GA, Foundry Toolkit for VS Code GA, memory, Toolbox, hosted agents

Semantic Kernel

• Semantic Kernel documentation — Microsoft's open-source SDK for integrating LLMs into .NET, Python, and Java apps
• GitHub — microsoft/semantic-kernel
• Packages — NuGet | PyPI
• Semantic Kernel Agents — building single and multi-agent systems with SK

Foundry Agent Service

• Foundry Agent Service documentation — fully managed GA service for building, deploying, and scaling agents; built on the OpenAI Responses API
• Foundry Agent Service GA announcement — what's new, private networking, 1,400+ tool catalog, A2A and MCP support
• Build and run agents at scale with Microsoft Foundry at Build 2026 — hosted agents, Agent Framework, Toolboxes, Microsoft 365 distribution, observability, and optimization

Microsoft Agent Framework

• Microsoft Agent Framework documentation — the next generation of both Semantic Kernel and AutoGen, built by the same teams; graph-based workflows, multi-agent orchestration, human-in-the-loop (public preview)
• Quickstart — build your first agent in Python or .NET
• GitHub — microsoft/agent-framework | Python samples | C# samples
• Packages — pip install agent-framework --pre | NuGet: Microsoft.Agents.AI
• Azure Durable Functions integration — host long-running, reliable agents as durable functions
• A2A protocol integration — cross-platform agent interoperability
• Migration guides — from Semantic Kernel | from AutoGen
• Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework — Azure blog announcement
• Microsoft Agent Framework Version 1.0 — production-ready 1.0 release for .NET and Python with stable APIs and long-term support (Apr 2026)
• From Local to Production: The Complete Developer Journey — Foundry blog on Agent Framework v1.0 + Foundry Toolkit GA, memory, Toolbox, hosted agents, and observability
• The Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI Apps — Microsoft Foundry blog deep-dive
• Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer — .NET Blog — building blocks, workflows, and production patterns
• Semantic Kernel and Microsoft Agent Framework — relationship, roadmap, and transition guidance
• Workflows documentation — graph-based orchestration for composing agents, tools, and human-in-the-loop steps
• Framework overview — architecture, capabilities, and cross-language support
• microsoft/Agent-Framework-Samples — official guided examples for Python and .NET
• Build a real-world example with Agent Framework, Foundry, MCP, and Aspire — end-to-end production app walkthrough
• Multi-Agent Reference Architecture — patterns, building blocks, orchestration, security, and evaluation for enterprise multi-agent systems | GitHub
• Orchestrating Multi-Agent Intelligence: MCP-Driven Patterns — Tech Community deep-dive on orchestration patterns (handoff, reflection, magentic)

Microsoft 365 Agents SDK

• M365 Agents SDK documentation — successor to Bot Framework; deploy agents across Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, webchat, and more from a single codebase; AI-stack agnostic (.NET GA, JS v1.4, Python v0.7)
• Introducing the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK — announcement blog post
• Quickstarts — C# | JavaScript | Python
• GitHub — microsoft/Agents (samples & hub) | .NET | JavaScript | Python
• Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit — VS Code extension | documentation | GitHub — scaffolding templates, local playground for debugging, and one-click Azure deployment
• What is the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK? — architecture, capabilities, and when to use this SDK vs. declarative agents
• Work IQ for agents — Microsoft 365 Developer Blog guidance for grounding custom agents in enterprise context and tools
• Introducing the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit — tooling announcement: scaffolding, debugging, CI/CD, and GitHub Copilot integration
• Build custom engine agents with M365 Agents SDK — end-to-end guide for building custom engine agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Create and deploy an agent with M365 Agents SDK — step-by-step from project creation to production deployment
• Bot Framework to Agents SDK migration guide — namespace changes, unsupported features, and migration steps for .NET, Node.js, and Python
• Microsoft Learn training path — build custom engine agents with the M365 Agents SDK (hands-on modules)
• Agents Toolkit overview — IDE integration for Visual Studio, VS Code, and CLI

Copilot Studio developer tools

• VS Code extension for Copilot Studio — documentation | VS Code Marketplace
• Power Platform CLI — command-line tooling for building and managing Power Platform and Copilot Studio solutions

Agent 365 SDK

• Agent 365 developer documentation — register agents with Agent 365, manage identity, access control, and telemetry
• GitHub — Node.js | Python | .NET

Agent-to-Agent (A2A)

• A2A Protocol specification — open protocol for interoperability between agents across vendors and frameworks
• GitHub — google-a2a/A2A — spec, samples, and SDKs

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

• MCP documentation — open standard for connecting AI models to tools, data sources, and services
• GitHub — Python SDK | TypeScript SDK
• Azure MCP Server — official MCP server for Azure services
• MCP plugins in Semantic Kernel — use MCP servers as SK plugins
• Copilot Studio MCP — labs & samples | MCP Server lab (GitHub) | Power Platform MCP samples (GitHub)

LangChain

• LangChain + Microsoft integrations — Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Cosmos DB, and more
• Azure OpenAI with LangChain — using Azure OpenAI as the LLM provider
• GitHub — langchain-ai/langchain

AutoGen

• AutoGen documentation — Microsoft Research framework for multi-agent conversation and orchestration
• GitHub — microsoft/autogen
• AG2 — community-driven fork with continued active development | GitHub

CrewAI

• CrewAI documentation — role-based multi-agent framework; works with Azure OpenAI as the LLM provider
• LLM connections — configuring Azure OpenAI with CrewAI
• GitHub — crewAIInc/crewAI

LlamaIndex

• LlamaIndex documentation — data framework for LLM apps and agents; deep Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI integration
• Azure OpenAI with LlamaIndex
• GitHub — run-llama/llama_index

• Azure-Samples/azureai-samples — official Azure AI Foundry and Azure AI Agent Service samples
• Semantic Kernel Python samples
• Semantic Kernel .NET samples
• microsoft/Agent365-Samples — Agent 365 SDK sample applications
• OfficeDev/microsoft-365-agents-toolkit-samples — M365 Agents Toolkit sample apps
• microsoft/Agent-Framework-Samples — official guided examples covering agents, workflows, tool integration, and production patterns
• Ignite LAB513 — Build A2A and MCP Systems with Agent Framework — hands-on lab from Microsoft Ignite 2025
• Ignite LAB518 — Multi-Agent Apps with Agent Framework or LangGraph — hands-on lab from Microsoft Ignite 2025
• Build25-BRK117 — session code from Microsoft Build 2025
• microsoft/multi-agent-reference-architecture — production-grade patterns for enterprise multi-agent systems
• Microsoft Agent Framework Python samples
• Microsoft Agent Framework C# samples
• M365 Agents SDK samples — all three languages
• AutoGen samples
• OfficeDev/Copilot-for-M365-Samples — official Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility samples (declarative agents, plugins, connectors)
• Sample Solution Gallery — community and Microsoft samples for Copilot and agent scenarios
• CopilotStudioSamples — official Copilot Studio code samples and utilities
• pnp/copilot-connectors-samples — community connector samples for Microsoft Copilot (PnP)
• microsoft/skills-for-copilot-studio — YAML-based agent skill development for Copilot Studio

Design and adoption guidance

• Agentic AI adoption maturity model — structured framework to assess where you are in your agent adoption journey and identify concrete actions to scale responsibly
• Design and operationalize agent evaluation — systematic approach to evaluating agent performance: define purpose, quality metrics, and an iterative improvement framework

Courses & curricula

• AI Agents for Beginners — Microsoft's free 12-lesson course covering agent fundamentals, multi-agent systems, orchestration, evaluation, and deployment | GitHub
• Exploring Microsoft Agent Framework — dedicated lesson from the AI Agents for Beginners course
• Get started with Agent Framework (Microsoft Learn) — step-by-step guide from first agent to workflows and hosting
• Generative AI for Beginners in .NET (v2) — rebuilt for .NET 10 with Agent Framework integration
• Build custom engine agents with M365 Agents SDK (Microsoft Learn) — hands-on training path covering fundamentals, the SDK, deployment, and Copilot integration
• Lab BMA2 — Build your first agent using M365 Agents SDK — Copilot Developer Camp hands-on lab
• Copilot Developer Camp — full set of hands-on labs for declarative agents, custom engine agents, plugins, and connectors
• AI-3026: Building Agents with Microsoft Foundry — new certification for designing, building, and deploying agents on the Foundry platform

Microsoft Build 2026

• Microsoft Agent Framework at Build 2026 — Agent Framework 1.0 GA, orchestration capabilities, multi-agent patterns, and hosted agents announcement
• Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work — keynote blog covering Microsoft Scout, Work IQ GA, Agent 365 GA, and Windows as agent platform
• Microsoft Build 2026 news hub — all announcements and the book of news
• Opening Keynote on YouTube — full opening keynote with Satya Nadella and live agent demos
• BRK241 — From prototype to production: build and run agents at scale
• BRK242 — Turn your agents into action: Connect tools, APIs, and documents

Microsoft Ignite 2025

• Microsoft Ignite 2025 YouTube playlist — all session recordings on demand
• Copilot and agents at work — Ignite 2025 — curated playlist of agent-focused sessions
• LAB513 — Build A2A and MCP Systems with Agent Framework — hands-on lab materials and code
• LAB518 — Multi-Agent Apps with Agent Framework or LangGraph — hands-on lab materials, Cosmos DB, MCP, and orchestration
• BRK319 — Build Agents for Copilot with the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit — building declarative and custom engine agents; SDK and Toolkit demo
• Ignite 2025: A Developer’s Guide to Building Agents for Microsoft 365 — official companion blog with session links and M365 agent guidance

Video tutorials

• On .NET Live | Building Real-World AI Agents with Agent Framework — practical demo: video-to-blog transformation and orchestration patterns
• Microsoft Agent Framework Tutorial 2025 — Build AI Agents with Python from Scratch — KodeKloud complete course covering production-ready agents, memory, and multi-agent workflows
• Microsoft Agent Framework Tutorial — The Future of AI Agents on Azure — Tech with Kirk — ReAct pattern, Semantic Kernel, and Azure integration
• Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET | The Future of AI Agents — .NET-focused tutorial with .NET Aspire integration
• Build AI Agents in .NET with Microsoft Workflow Agent Framework — step-by-step workflow agent tutorial for C# developers
• Build Agents for Copilot with the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit | BRK319 — Ignite 2025 session on declarative and custom engine agents with the M365 Agents SDK

Blog posts & articles

• How to run evals for the model router — Foundry blog — running quality, cost, and latency evaluations for the Foundry model router with a router-aware eval pipeline (May 19, 2026)
• What's new in Microsoft Foundry | April 2026 — Foundry blog — Agent Framework 1.0 GA, Foundry Toolkit for VS Code GA, Foundry Local GA, GPT-5.5, and new SDK updates across Python, JS/TS, .NET, and Java (May 12, 2026)
• When AI should ask for help: Human-in-the-loop patterns in Microsoft Foundry — Foundry blog — patterns for agents that know when to defer to a human reviewer (May 21, 2026)
• Teaching AI to remember: Exploring Memory Store in Microsoft Foundry — Foundry blog — how the new Memory Store gives agents persistent, structured memory across sessions (May 21, 2026)
• Microsoft Agent Framework Version 1.0 — Agent Framework blog — production-ready 1.0 release for .NET and Python (Apr 3, 2026)
• From Local to Production: The Complete Developer Journey — Foundry blog — Agent Framework v1.0, Foundry Toolkit GA, memory, and hosted agents in one story (Apr 22, 2026)
• Introducing Toolboxes in Foundry — Foundry blog — curate, configure, and reuse tools across agents through a unified endpoint (Apr 22, 2026)
• Agent Skills for Python: File, Code, and Class - Composed in One Provider — Agent Framework blog — compose file-based, inline-code, and class-based Python skills in one provider with discovery and deduplication (May 22, 2026)
• Introducing Agent Framework Dev UI — Agent Framework blog — debug agents, threads, and workflows with the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework Dev UI (May 28, 2026)
• AI Observability Starter Kit for Microsoft Foundry Agents — Foundry blog — starter guidance for production-grade AI observability across agent quality, latency, and behavior (May 29, 2026)
• GPT Realtime in production: Which context strategy should you actually use? — Foundry blog — production context-window strategy guidance for Azure GPT Realtime applications (May 29, 2026)
• Migrating to GPT-5.x without breaking GPT-4: A practical backward-compatible playbook — Foundry blog — model migration playbook for preserving compatibility across GPT-4 and GPT-5.x parameters (May 29, 2026)
• Load testing hosted MCP servers with Locust and Azure Load Testing — Foundry blog — load-test hosted MCP servers against bursty, parallel agent tool traffic (May 29, 2026)
• Extending the Vercel AI SDK to Microsoft Foundry: TypeScript — Foundry blog — TypeScript provider patterns for Foundry-backed agentic apps using the Vercel AI SDK (May 28, 2026)
• Deploying existing agentic services to Microsoft 365 Copilot via gateway and OBO access — Foundry blog — publish existing agentic services to Microsoft 365 Copilot with gateway patterns and delegated on-behalf-of access (May 25, 2026)
• Monitoring & Observability in Microsoft Foundry — Foundry blog — practical guidance for observing deployed agents as behavior, quality, latency, and costs shift in production (May 22, 2026)
• Foundry IQ as a shared knowledge brain for multiple AI agents — Foundry blog — shared retrieval and knowledge-layer patterns for multi-agent systems (May 22, 2026)
• Stop prompt injection from hijacking your agent — Agent Framework blog — FIDES adds deterministic information-flow controls for prompt injection defense (May 20, 2026)
• Governance at the Speed of Agents: Microsoft Agent Framework and Agent Governance Toolkit, Better Together — Agent Framework blog — runtime policy enforcement, governed actions, and auditability for production agents (May 14, 2026)
• A Tour of Handoff Orchestration Pattern — Agent Framework blog — bounded multi-agent graphs for routing, follow-up questions, and specialist handoffs (May 7, 2026)
• From Local to Production: Deploy Your Microsoft Agent Framework Agent with Foundry Hosted Agents — Agent Framework blog — deploy local agents to managed Foundry Hosted Agents with identity, scaling, session state, and observability (May 6, 2026)
• A2A v1 Is Here: Cross-Platform Agent Communication in Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET — Agent Framework blog — updated A2A Agent and A2A Hosting packages for the stable A2A v1 SDK (Apr 28, 2026)
• Introducing the new hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service — Foundry blog — secure, scalable compute with file system, code execution, and persistent memory (Apr 22, 2026)
• Agent Skills in .NET: Three Ways to Author, One Provider to Run Them — Agent Framework blog — file-based, inline C#, and class-based skills with script execution and approvals (Apr 13, 2026)
• Building a Real-Time Multi-Agent UI with AG-UI and Agent Framework Workflows — Agent Framework blog — multi-agent customer support UI with handoffs, approvals, and live state (Apr 8, 2026)
• CodeAct in Agent Framework: Faster Agents with Fewer Model Turns — Agent Framework blog — collapse multi-step tool plans into isolated code execution for ~50% lower latency (Apr 23, 2026)
• Chat History Storage Patterns in Microsoft Agent Framework — Agent Framework blog — architectural patterns for conversation history across cost, privacy, and portability trade-offs (Apr 24, 2026)
• MCP Apps now available in Copilot chat — M365 Developer Blog — agents render interactive UI (forms, dashboards, diagrams) inline in Copilot via MCP Apps or OpenAI Apps SDK (Apr 7, 2026)
• What’s new with M365 Copilot declarative agents — April 2026 — Andrew Connell / Voitanos — MCP Apps, embedded knowledge, and the new M365 Agents Toolkit plugin walkthrough
• Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework: The Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI Apps — Microsoft Foundry Blog
• Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer — .NET Blog on building blocks, workflows, and production patterns
• Semantic Kernel and Microsoft Agent Framework — roadmap, relationship, and transition guidance
• Semantic Kernel Roadmap H1 2025 — accelerating agents, processes, and integration; the path to Agent Framework
• Build a real-world example with Agent Framework, Foundry, MCP, and Aspire — Microsoft Developer Blog end-to-end walkthrough
• Designing Multi-Agent Intelligence — Microsoft Developer Blog on enterprise multi-agent architecture and design patterns
• Orchestrating Multi-Agent Intelligence: MCP-Driven Patterns — Tech Community deep-dive on handoff, reflection, and magentic orchestration
• Introducing the Microsoft Agent Framework — Azure Developer Community Hub overview
• Getting Started with Microsoft Agent Framework — Johan Rin — Python hands-on walkthrough with Azure OpenAI
• Build your first AI Agent using Microsoft Agent Framework — Anuraj — .NET tutorial with orchestration and external tools
• Building AI Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework and Ollama — Anto Subash — local model inference with streaming and custom tools
• Migrating from Semantic Kernel to Microsoft Agent Framework: A C# Developer’s Guide — side-by-side migration walkthrough
• Semantic Kernel + AutoGen = Open-Source ‘Microsoft Agent Framework’ — Visual Studio Magazine analysis of the convergence
• Introducing the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK — M365 Developer Blog launch announcement with architecture and code examples
• Introducing the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit — M365 Developer Blog on scaffolding, debugging, and deploying agents
• Ignite 2025: A Developer’s Guide to Building Agents for Microsoft 365 — M365 Developer Blog session guide and agent strategy overview
• How M365 Agents SDK Simplifies Building Unified Agents for Any Channel — Nanddeep Nachan — multi-channel deployment, Graph API, and extensibility deep-dive
• Building Agents with Microsoft 365 Agents SDK — Nanddeep Nachan — getting started walkthrough
• Building an Agent with Microsoft Agent Framework and M365 Agents SDK — AI ML Insider — combining the Agent Framework with the M365 SDK for end-to-end agent deployment
• Ignite 2025 AI Announcements: What Software Developers Need to Know — Tech Community summary of agentic AI advancements and Foundry updates
• M365 Developers Update | June 2025 — SDK advances, adaptive cards, streaming responses, and cross-platform agent management

• Microsoft Agent Framework team blog — official updates, roadmaps, and deep technical articles
• Agent Framework GitHub Discussions — Q&A, feature requests, and community collaboration
• M365 Agents SDK blog posts — all Microsoft 365 Developer Blog posts tagged with the Agents SDK
• M365 Agents SDK — GitHub Discussions
• Azure AI Tech Community — blog and announcements
• Semantic Kernel — GitHub Discussions
• Azure AI Foundry — GitHub Discussions
• AutoGen — GitHub Discussions
• Stack Overflow — azure-openai
• Copilot Studio Labs — hands-on developer labs for Copilot Studio
• The Custom Engine blog — deep technical articles on building custom engine agents with Copilot Studio