Microsoft Agent Framework course

Start with the foundations

The path starts with choosing code or an agent, then develops connections, contracts, tools and approved actions. Installation and the configurator prepare the full solution; the first twelve demo pages connect each concept to current code.

• Introduction and audience

• Installation and initial setup

• Course path

• Demo index

Outcome and extensions

• Integrated documented action

• Model routing

• Production limits and review

• Demo470 — Documented Approval

• Demo480 — Model Routing

• Demo490 — Production Review

• Exercise: integrated documented action

Observability and evaluation

• Telemetry and usage

• Business journal and effect evidence

• Context budget

• Deterministic regression

• Candidate, judge and qualification

• Demo420 — Safe Telemetry

• Demo430 — Business Audit

• Demo440 — Context Budget

• Demo450 — Contract Regression

• Demo460 — Candidate Evaluation

• Nullable usage and journal

• Isolation and calibration

MCP and streaming interfaces

• MCP contracts and discovery

• Streaming and interfaces

• Demo400 — Local MCP

• Demo410 — Streaming Interfaces

Harness, resilience and trust

• Harness and bounded execution

• Degradation and cancellation

• Untrusted data and authorization

• Prompt profiles

• Demo330 — Bounded Harness

• Demo340 — Loop Control

• Demo350 — Graceful Degradation

• Demo360 — Prompt Injection

• Demo370 — Layered Protection

• Demo380 — Role Based Tools

• Demo390 — Prompt Profiles

• Bounds and cancellation

Workflows, plans and durable decisions

• Typed graphs and events

• Proposed plans and controlled execution

• Waiting, checkpoints and idempotent effects

• Demo230 — Typed Workflow

• Demo240 — Agent Workflow

• Demo250 — Workflow Events

• Demo260 — Multi Agent Roles

• Demo270 — Planning

• Demo280 — Validated Planning

• Demo290 — Formatted Planning

• Demo300 — External Request

• Demo310 — Checkpoint Resume

• Demo320 — Durable Approval

• Refusal, restart and replay

Sessions, memory and RAG

P05–P06 is available: five chapters, ten demos and a correction/forgetting exercise. The complete path ends at Demo470; Demo480–490 are extensions.

• Session history and persistence

• Controlled facts and context drift

• Vector index and retrieved evidence

• Corpus governance

• Business retrieval and structured sources

• Demo130 — Session Persistence

• Demo140 — Native Session

• Demo150 — Shared Facts

• Demo160 — Context Memory

• Demo170 — Memory Drift

• Demo180 — Vector Ingestion

• Demo190 — Retrieved Evidence

• Demo200 — Retrieval Provider

• Demo210 — Corpus Quality

• Demo220 — Business Retrieval

Code and exercises

The canonical repository for the full code is odahan/MAF-Course-Code, linked in the footer and from every demo page. Reading these HTML files needs no model, account or application service.

• Exercise index

• Analysis and action: Start/End

Annexes and references

• Exercise guide

• Course resources

• Limits and reservations

• Notices and provenance

• Reading conventions and historical correspondence

• Deepening and extensions

• Glossary