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Governance at the Speed of Agents: Microsoft Agent Framework and Agent Governance Toolkit, Better Together

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s been an important development in the Azure OpenAI & GPT Models space that caught my attention, and I wanted to break it down — not just what was announced, but why it matters and how it fits into the bigger picture.

What’s New

Building powerful AI agents is only half the story, running them safely in production is the real challenge. As customers adopt Microsoft Agent Framework for agent orchestration, a clear need has emerged for robust, built-in governance. In this post, Imran Siddique from the AGT team walks through how Agent Governance Toolkit pairs with Agent Framework to enforce policy at runtime, govern agent actions, and provide end-to-end auditability. Turning agentic systems into production-ready platforms.

Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s been an important development in the RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) space that caught my attention, and I wanted to break it down — not just what was announced, but why it matters and how it fits into the bigger picture.

What’s New

Today we’re announcing the1.1.0 release of Foundry Local— Microsoft’s cross-platform local AI solution that lets developers bringAI directly into their applicationswith no cloud dependency, no network latency, and no per-token costs.

Chat History Storage Patterns in Microsoft Agent Framework

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What’s New

When people talk about building AI agents, they usually focus on models, tools, and prompts. In practice, one of the most important architectural decisions is much simpler:where does the conversation history live?

Introducing Toolboxes in Foundry

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s been an important development in the GitHub Copilot space that caught my attention, and I wanted to break it down — not just what was announced, but why it matters and how it fits into the bigger picture.

What’s New

Available in Public Preview Today

Toolbox is a new way tocurate, configure, and reusetools across all of your AI agents without rewiring them every time from Foundry.

Today, teams build agents across different frameworks and runtimes. Each agent often wires tools directly, with its own authentication, credentials, and integration code. As organizations scale agent usage, this leads to duplicated work, inconsistent behavior, and fragile production deployments.