Microsoft's Agent Harness and Foundry Hosted Agents reached general availability, completing the company's pivot from an agent-building library to a production runtime for governing agents. The releas…
Microsoft announced at Build 2026 the general availability of its Agent Harness and Foundry Hosted Agents, a production-ready runtime for AI agents. The company emphasizes that the harness infrastruct…
A new framework called the Agent Harness redefines production agents by prioritizing runtime control over prompt engineering. The harness manages context assembly, tool exposure, permission checks, lo…
A developer building multi-agent systems argues that the SAGA pattern, used for reliable microservices transactions, is insufficient for AI agent workflows. The developer introduces Agent Harness as a…