Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
Middleware in Microsoft Agent Framework
A critical need, when creating multi-agent applications is to manage token usage in API calls. This is where middleware plays a crucial role. In this post, we will explore what middleware is within the Microsoft Agent Framework, why it is … Continue reading
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Activity Source in Microsoft Agent Framework
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, the ability to monitor and debug multi-agent systems is paramount. The Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) has taken a significant step forward by integrating OpenTelemetry, a powerful observability framework that enhances the monitoring … Continue reading
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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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