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Agents2026-07-13 · source-backed
Released July 10, joining .NET and Python, with providers for Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, A2A, plus MCP support, human-in-the-loop approvals, checkpointed multi-agent workflows, and OpenTelemetry tracing (Microsoft Go Blog). For Go teams running services and cloud-native workers, this closes a real gap: production agent orchestration without dropping to Python. The same framework's python-1.11.0 also stabilized its Skills API and added Progressive MCP Disclosure for on-demand tool schema loading.
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Microsoft Agent Framework deprecates Semantic Kernel / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Microsoft Agent Framework deprecates Semantic Kernel); both cover A2A, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, MCP; reported by the same outlet (devblogs.microsoft.com).
Gemini competes with Claude / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Gemini competes with Claude); both cover Anthropic, Foundry, MCP; reported by the same outlet (devblogs.microsoft.com).
Microsoft released Foundry / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Microsoft released Foundry); both cover MCP, NET, Python; reported by the same outlet (devblogs.microsoft.com).
Microsoft released Foundry / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Microsoft released Foundry); both cover A2A, Anthropic, MCP, NET; overlapping topics (added, agent).
Microsoft released Foundry / Shared entities / Same source domain / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Microsoft released Foundry); both cover NET, OpenTelemetry, Python, Released July; reported by the same outlet (devblogs.microsoft.com).
Microsoft released Foundry / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Microsoft released Foundry); both cover A2A, MCP, NET, Python; reported by the same outlet (devblogs.microsoft.com).
Anthropic released MCP / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Anthropic released MCP); both cover Foundry, MCP, Microsoft Agent Framework, NET; overlapping topics (agent, azure).
Anthropic released MCP / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Anthropic released MCP); both cover A2A, MCP, NET, Python; overlapping topics (agent, framework).