Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What changed on 3 April One SDK, not two. The enterprise foundations of Semantic Kernel and the multi-agent orchestration patterns of AutoGen now ship as a single open-source package under the Microsoft.Agents.AI namespace. Same concepts across .NET and Python. The API shape is mirrored across both languages — a rare commitment from Microsoft to keep its polyglot story straight. Six model providers out of the box. Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Amazon Bedrock, Google Gemini and Ollama. The framework is no longer Azure-only in any meaningful sense. MCP and A2A are first-class. Model Context Protocol for tool discovery, Agent-to-Agent for cross-runtime collaboration — both baked in rather than bolted on. DevUI and OpenTelemetry ship by default. Browser-based local debugger plus…
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