Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
Important for programmers to remember
No one ever wanted a ⅛ inch drill bit. What they want is a ⅛ inch hole.
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Microsoft Agent Framework: Human In The Loop
tl;dr If you’re building automated workflows that sometimes must pause for human judgment (approvals, moderation, triage), Microsoft Agent Framework provides first‑class HITL primitives: typed RequestPorts, durable suspended execution, emitted RequestInfoEvents, and automatic routing of responses back to the correct workflow … Continue reading
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Using Session State
My demo program is a multi-agent application that accepts a topic BlogAgent, researches that topic (ResearcherAgent) and then drafts a blog post (AuthorAgent). The post is then reviewed by another agent (ReviewerAgent) who either accepts the draft or sends it … Continue reading
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Copilot Review To The Rescue
For those who are following along with the evolution of my Blog Writing application: after the last revision (allowing follow-up questions to a query) Copilot evaluated my Pull Request and sent me an email that the follow-up was not, in … Continue reading
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Podcast: MAF Deep Dive
Happy to post to my podcast a deep dive into Microsoft Agent Framework with Daniel Costea. Available here or wherever you get your podcasts.
Microsoft Tenants
What is an Azure tenant (Microsoft Entra ID tenant) — and what is it used for? tl;drAn Azure tenant — now called a Microsoft Entra ID tenant — is a dedicated, isolated instance of Microsoft’s identity service that represents an … Continue reading
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Agent Skills 101
tl;drImagine an AI assistant in your company that can write emails, check expense reports, and run CI pipeline steps — but it has every capability baked into one giant prompt. It’s slow, expensive, brittle, and dangerously able to access systems … Continue reading
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Deploying to Foundry
The demonstration program discussed (and used) in the previous blog posts ran entirely locally as a console application. This week I set out to migrate it to Foundry. To do so, I enlisted the help of Bruno Capuano and Jon … Continue reading
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Copilot Code Review
tl;drCopilot code review gives every pull request a fast, consistent first pass — catching typos, missing null checks and small bugs so human reviewers can focus on architecture, design and higher‑risk decisions. What is Copilot code review?Copilot code review is … Continue reading
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Migrating Agents to Foundry
I wanted to deploy my demonstration program, a local console application, to Foundry. The short answer is that without a front end (e.g. a Blazer Application) it made sense only to host the agents (and the tool) on Foundry, and … Continue reading
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Nodes & Edges in Microsoft Agent Framework
tl;drHow do you reliably combine deterministic business logic, parallel retrieval, and noisy LLM calls in production? The Microsoft Agent Framework answers this by modeling workflows as directed graphs: Executors (the nodes) perform the work, and Edges (the connections) define how … Continue reading
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