Category Archives: AI

Logging & OpenTelemetry in MAF

In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, particularly in the realm of artificial intelligence and automation, the importance of robust logging mechanisms cannot be overstated. This is especially true for multi-agent systems, where numerous agents interact and collaborate to … Continue reading

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Which Pilot is Which?

Microsoft can make you crazy by naming so many products with overlapping titles: Copilot, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, and GitHub Copilot App In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development and productivity tools, understanding the distinctions between various Microsoft AI-assisted … Continue reading

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Ensuring Agent Safety in AI Development

Key Insights from Microsoft Learn* As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, ensuring the safety and security of AI agents has become more important. The Microsoft Learn documentation on agent safety provides a comprehensive overview of best practices and guidelines for … Continue reading

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MAF-Doctor Walkthrough

Our latest video is a walkthrough of MAF-Doctor. This is an extraordinary utility for anyone using the Microsoft Agent Framework.

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Transparency in Agentics

A key requirement in building agentic systems is for their reasoning to be transparent. This allows you to ensure accuracy and to provide “human in the loop” oversight. This is also a key requirement for debugging your agents and their … Continue reading

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Migrating C# -> Microsoft Agent Framework

In a previous blog post I ported a Python application to C#. However, I did not take advantage of the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF). In this admittedly long post, I’ll migrate that code to MAF. Note, the updated source code … Continue reading

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Dependency Injection & Agent Framework

In the previous blog posts we ported a Python implementation of an agentic application to C# and Microsoft Agent Framework. We used interfaces, but we did not use Dependency Injection (DI). It is pretty easy to add. Agents, tools, executors … Continue reading

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Migrating Agentic Code Python -> C# Part 6 (final)

Note, the complete source code for the .NET version of this demo application is now available at https://github.com/JesseLiberty/blogMigration—public In the previous post we finished up creating our agents. You’ll remember that each of the agents declared nodes. We’re finally going … Continue reading

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.NET Live Turns the Tables

I had the great privilege of being interviewed about AI on .NET Live. You can find the video on YouTube. Find my YouTube channel here.

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Migrating Agentic Code Python -> C# Part 5

In the previous post we looked at implementing the Researcher in C#. In this, as promised, we’ll look at the Author and the Reviewer. The Author is handed two objects when instantiated: the llm (an IChatClient object) and the chatOptions. … Continue reading

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Migrating Agentic Code Python -> C# Part 4

In the previous blog post we looked at the Blogger (orchestrator) code in C#. Let’s move on to some of the other agents. The Blogger invokes the Researcher, so let’s go there next.

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Migrating Agentic Code Python -> C# Part 3

In the previous blog post (Part 2) we began the migration by setting up the configuration. In this post, we’ll tackle the Blogger, which acts as an orchestrator for the agents. In the python version of our program the blogger_prompt_template … Continue reading

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