Microsoft open-sources Agent Lightning for non-intrusive RL training of agents
thisdudelikesAI · x · 2026-08-15
Microsoft open-sourced Agent Lightning (17k+ stars), featuring a decoupled design where the agent runtime and training loop never touch each other. Agents running on LangChain, AutoGen, or plain Python emit spans to a shared store, allowing the trainer to read data and perform RL training externally without rewriting the agent code or binding to a specific framework.
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