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Agents2026-08-09 · source-backed
InfoQ reported the Agent Framework Harness and Foundry Hosted Agents reaching GA in .NET and Python on August 3, bundling function invocation, per-call history persistence, context compaction, todo lists with plan/execute modes, file memory, skills, web search, tool approval, and OpenTelemetry. That 98.4/1.6 split is the number I'd put on a slide. Everyone optimizes the model; almost all the code is scaffolding. Also telling: in a comparative run MAF halted after 40 round-trips with a limit-reached message while the GitHub Copilot SDK ran to 300 without stopping on its own.
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