Microsoft ships agent harness package for Agent Framework Go, easing agent setup
adnan_hashmi · x · 2026-11-12
Microsoft released an agent/harness package for Microsoft Agent Framework for Go (since v0.2.0, framework still in public preview) that bundles the repeated setup needed to build agents.
What the harness configures:
- Pre-wires context providers, middleware, history, and session state so you don't rebuild the same defaults per agent.
- harness.AgentConfig returns an agent.Config with harness defaults, combining your tools with built-in ones.
- Supports task tracking, saveable/revisitable notes, reusable skills, and calling your application's tools.
- Approval rules let your application gate tool calls that require a user's decision.
- Built-in tracing provides timing and error data for model and tool calls.
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