Ben Thomas 32c26c3c25 Adding draft version of workflows design doc. (#271)
* Adding draft version of workflows design doc.

* Adding message flow diagrams and fixing group chat sample.

* Added sequence diagram for fan_in with WhenAny

* Updating workflows design

* clean up

* Clean up request & response contents

* Add more future enhacements

* message_handler -> handler

* remove mention of visual designer

* Minor updates and rename

* Name reformat

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Co-authored-by: Chris <66376200+crickman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tao Chen <taochen@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Zhu <ekzhu@users.noreply.github.com>
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Microsoft Agent Framework

Highlights

  • Flexible Agent Framework: build, orchestrate, and deploy AI agents and workflows
  • Multi-Agent Orchestration: group chat, sequential, concurrent, and handoff patterns
  • Graph-based Workflows: connect agents and deterministic functions using data flows with streaming, checkpointing, time-travel, and Human-in-the-loop.
  • Plugin Ecosystem: extend with native functions, OpenAPI, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and more
  • LLM Support: OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, and more
  • Runtime Support: in-process and distributed agent execution
  • Multimodal: text, vision, and function calling
  • Cross-Platform: .NET and Python implementations

Below are the basics for each language implementation. For more details on python see here and for .NET see here.

More Examples & Samples

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Agent Framework Documentation

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