Microsoft Agent Framework

Everything Fervor AI has published that touches Microsoft Agent Framework — 4 pieces, newest first.

• Briefing · September 25, 2026 · afternoon

  Three vendors and one federal appeals court each moved a piece of the agent control plane out of the agent process and into whoever hosts it.

• Skills Over MCP vs Specialist Agents: Microsoft's Own Trace Says Fewer Calls, More Tokens

  A specialist agent is usually a SKILL.md and three tools wearing a model, and Microsoft's own trace shows that removing the model halves latency and calls while raising…

• Briefing · September 17, 2026 · afternoon

  Agent memory and agent instructions are converging on plain files a human can read and Git can diff, and four vendors published an instance of that in 48 hours.

• Briefing · July 30, 2026 · morning

  Three shipments in 48 hours moved capability out of the model and into the harness around it, and the same 48 hours priced the harness as the new attack surface.