Official Technical Resources: Microsoft (page 3)
Official Technical Resources · Microsoft: 312 entries in total; this page lists entries 31–45.
Termination & Guardrails
Learn how to implement termination conditions and guardrails with middleware.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: AI Agent · Prompt Injection · AI Guardrails
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Switch models and inference providers at runtime
Understand when an agent can switch models or inference providers during a conversation without losing context.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Model Selection and Cost · AI Agent
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Agent Safety
Security best practices for building safe and secure AI agents with Agent Framework.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: AI Agent · Prompt Injection · AI Guardrails
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Agent Harness
Understand how the Agent Framework Harness composes an agentic runtime and how to create and customize a harness agent.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: AI Agent · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Workflow concepts
Understand Agent Framework workflow APIs, graph primitives, execution, state, and advanced composition.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Workflow Orchestration · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Agent Executor
Deep dive into the AgentExecutor, the built-in executor that adapts AI agents for use in workflows.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Workflow Orchestration · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Sub-Workflows
Deep dive into composing workflows by nesting them as executors within parent workflows.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Workflow Orchestration · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Workflow Builder & Execution
Building and executing workflows with the WorkflowBuilder.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Workflow Orchestration · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Edges
Edges define how messages flow between executors in a workflow.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Workflow Orchestration · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Events
In-depth look at Events in Microsoft Agent Framework Workflows.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Workflow Orchestration · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Executors
In-depth look at Executors in Microsoft Agent Framework Workflows.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Workflow Orchestration · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Functional Workflow API
Write workflows as plain Python async functions using the @workflow and @step decorators.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Workflow Orchestration · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Microsoft Agent Framework Workflows - State
In-depth look at State in Microsoft Agent Framework Workflows.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Workflow Orchestration · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Durable Extension
Learn how to make C# and Python Agent Framework agents and workflows durable with Azure Functions or bring-your-own-compute hosting.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Model Deployment Options · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24