MICROSOFT AGENT FRAMEWORK · 0.16.0-rc.1
Course path
Chapter contents: foundations, memory, SQLite RAG, workflows, harness, interfaces and agent evaluation.
Objectives
- Use this page to understand: Course path.
Available path
Foundations P00–P04 are available in both languages. Follow chapters for explanations and demo pages for procedures. Every program starts from the full canonical repository distribution.
Outcome and extensions
Observability and evaluation
MCP and streaming interfaces
Harness, resilience and trust
Workflows, plans and durable decisions
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.
Preview coverage
All planned course pages are available. They distinguish inspected code, dated deterministic evidence and live modes not rerun. Final publication approvals and delivery acceptance remain pending.
Chapters, demos and exercises
Annexes and references
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- Introduction and audience
- Course prerequisites
- Installation and initial setup
- Code, workflow and agent
- Connections and capabilities
- Business contracts and validation
- Tool catalogue and execution evidence
- Actions and in-process approval
- Session history and persistence
- Controlled facts and context drift
- Vector index and retrieved evidence
- Corpus governance
- Business retrieval and structured sources
- Typed graphs and events
- Waiting, checkpoints and idempotent effects
- Harness and bounded execution
- Untrusted data and authorization
- MCP contracts and discovery
- Streaming and interfaces
- Telemetry and usage
- Business journal and effect evidence
- Context budget
- Deterministic regression
- Candidate, judge and qualification
- Integrated documented action
