Microsoft Open-Sources Orchard Framework for Unified Agentic Modeling
tom_doerr · x · 2026-08-14
Microsoft has open-sourced the Orchard framework on GitHub to provide a shared substrate for agentic modeling research.
- Core Component: The environment layer (Orchard Env) acts as a stable service supporting trajectory distillation, on-policy RL rollouts, and evaluation.
- Research Recipes: It explores open SFT and RL training recipes across domains, including software engineering (Orchard-SWE), GUI (Orchard-GUI), and personal assistants.
- Goal: Ensures datasets, training recipes, and evaluation protocols remain portable across different harnesses and domains, preventing redundant rebuilds.
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