AutoGen

Microsoft Research's multi-agent programming framework, now in maintenance mode; new projects are pointed to Microsoft Agent Framework.

Category

Harnesses

Website

https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/

Repository

https://github.com/microsoft/autogen

Status

deprecated

Pricing

open-source

License

CC-BY-4.0

Maintainer

Microsoft (community managed)

Added

2026-10-02

Updated

2026-10-02

Last verified

2026-10-02

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• framework
• python
• multi-agent
• microsoft

Description

Per its README, AutoGen is in maintenance mode: no new features, community managed, contributions limited to bug fixes, security patches and docs. Microsoft recommends Microsoft Agent Framework for new projects and publishes a migration guide.

Related

• Microsoft Agent Framework: Framework for building, orchestrating and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows in Python and .NET; successor to AutoGen.

Sources

• https://github.com/microsoft/autogen

Machine-readable

• JSON
• Markdown
• Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)