Introducing STATE-Bench: A benchmark for AI agent memory
STATE-Bench is an open-source, memory-agnostic benchmark freely available to agent developers, researchers, and platform teams.
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From open source to agentic systems: Microsoft at Open Source Summit North America 2026
Open source is the foundation for AI and, as AI workloads scale, developers need that foundation to be more secure, more predictable, and easier to build apps and agents.
Conductor: Deterministic orchestration for multi-agent AI workflows
Conductor is an open-source CLI (MIT license, Microsoft org) that takes a different approach: you define your multi-agent workflows in YAML, and the routing between agents is deterministic. Jinja2 templates and expression evaluation handle conditions and branching. The orchestration layer consumes zero tokens. The structure is fixed at definition time—and that's the point.
How Drasi used GitHub Copilot to find documentation bugs
How Microsoft uses AI agents and Drasi to keep open‑source documentation accurate and working.
Introducing the Agent Governance Toolkit: Open-source runtime security for AI agents
Microsoft unveils the Agent Governance Toolkit to bring OS‑level security, trust, and compliance to autonomous AI agents.
Hyperlight Nanvix: POSIX support for Hyperlight Micro-VMs
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Hyperlight project delivers faster, more secure, and smaller workload execution to the cloud-native ecosystem.
9 open-source projects the GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code teams are sponsoring—and why they matter
GitHub Copilot and VS Code teams are sponsoring open-source MCP projects that push the boundaries of developer experience, agent autonomy, and more.
Bringing BASIC back: Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source
For decades, fragments and unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC have circulated online, mirrored on retrocomputing sites, and preserved in museum archives. Coders have studied the code, rebuilt it, and even run it in modern systems. Today, for the first time, we're officially releasing it under an open-source license.
Optimizing memory usage in large language models fine-tuning with KAITO: Best practices from Phi-3
The Cloud Native team at Azure is working to make AI on Kubernetes more cost-effective and approachable for a broader range of users.
Drasi accepted into CNCF sandbox for change-driven solutions
The Azure Incubations team is proud to share that Drasi has officially been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sandbox.
Hyperlight Wasm: Fast, secure, and OS-free
We're announcing the release of Hyperlight Wasm: a Hyperlight virtual machine (VM) “micro-guest.
Detect and react intelligently to changes in data with Drasi
This introductory post will focus on the core concepts of Drasi, and its major components such as Sources.