Microsoft Agent Framework

Trigger On

• building or reviewing .NET code that uses Microsoft.Agents.*, Microsoft.Extensions.AI, AIAgent, AgentThread, AgentSession, or Agent Framework hosting packages
• choosing between ChatClientAgent, Responses agents, hosted agents, custom agents, Anthropic agents, workflows, or durable agents
• authoring preview-era Microsoft.Agents.AI.Workflows.Declarative* packages or wrapping a workflow with workflow.AsAIAgent()
• adding tools, MCP, A2A, OpenAI-compatible hosting, AG-UI, DevUI, background responses, or OpenTelemetry
• migrating from Semantic Kernel agent APIs or aligning AutoGen-style multi-agent patterns to Agent Framework
• using Anthropic Claude models (haiku, sonnet, opus) via AnthropicClient or through Azure Foundry with AnthropicFoundryClient

Workflow