Posts tagged with "Agent Harness"

Microsoft's Agent Framework Harness and Foundry Hosted Agents reached general availability in early August 2026, wrapping models with function invocation, context compaction, planning, memory, tool approvals and OpenTelemetry in a runtime that runs locally, in containers, or consumption-billed on Foundry. A decision framework for Azure teams weighing the GA runtime against a hand-rolled agent loop, with cost levers and the Swedish compliance picture.