What is dotnet-microsoft-agent-framework?

Guidance for building AI agents and multi-agent workflows in .NET with Microsoft Agent Framework, including their tools, hosting, and safety controls.

Use it to build or review .NET agents, workflows, tool and MCP integrations, hosted agents, durable processes, and migrations from Semantic Kernel or AutoGen patterns.

It helps choose between ordinary code, one agent, or a workflow, and select the right execution and hosting approach for the task.

dotnet-microsoft-agent-framework — Skill by managedcode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/managedcode/prompterone/dotnet-microsoft-agent-framework

Any agent

npx skills add managedcode/PrompterOne --skill dotnet-microsoft-agent-framework

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/managedcode/PrompterOne

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,538 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00040	$0.02538
Opus 5	$0.00020	$0.01269
Sonnet 5	$0.00008	$0.00508
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00254

Measured 2d ago against content hash a0a1060adb81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dotnet-microsoft-agent-framework scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

dotnet-microsoft-agent-framework — 97% identical, 2 lines differ

.codex/skills/dotnet-microsoft-agent-framework/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Microsoft Agent Framework

Trigger On

building or reviewing .NET code that uses Microsoft.Agents.*, Microsoft.Extensions.AI, AIAgent, AgentThread, AgentSession, or Agent Framework hosting packages
choosing between ChatClientAgent, Responses agents, hosted agents, custom agents, Anthropic agents, workflows, or durable agents
authoring preview-era Microsoft.Agents.AI.Workflows.Declarative* packages or wrapping a workflow with workflow.AsAIAgent()
adding tools, MCP, A2A, OpenAI-compatible hosting, AG-UI, DevUI, background responses, or OpenTelemetry
migrating from Semantic Kernel agent APIs or aligning AutoGen-style multi-agent patterns to Agent Framework
using Anthropic Claude models (haiku, sonnet, opus) via AnthropicClient or through Azure Foundry with AnthropicFoundryClient

Workflow

Decide whether the problem should stay deterministic. If plain code or a typed workflow without LLM autonomy is enough, do that instead of adding an agent.
Choose the execution shape first: single AIAgent, explicit programmatic Workflow, workflow-as-agent wrapper, declarative workflow when YAML portability is explicitly required, Azure Functions durable agent, ASP.NET Core hosted agent, AG-UI remote UI, or DevUI local debugging.
Choose the agent type and provider intentionally. Prefer the simplest agent that satisfies the threading, tooling, and hosting requirements.
Keep agents stateless and keep conversation or long-lived state in provider-owned session objects. Most persistence guidance still centers on AgentThread, while newer middleware and background-response examples may surface AgentSession. Treat both as opaque provider-specific state.
Add only the tools and middleware that the scenario needs. Narrow the tool surface, require approval for side effects, and treat MCP, A2A, and third-party services as trust boundaries.
For workflows, model executors, edges, request-response ports, checkpoints, shared state, and human-in-the-loop explicitly rather than hiding control flow in prompts.
Prefer Responses-based protocols for new remote/OpenAI-compatible integrations unless you specifically need Chat Completions compatibility.
Use durable agents only when you truly need Azure Functions serverless hosting, durable thread storage, or deterministic long-running orchestrations.
Verify preview status, package maturity, docs recency, and provider-specific limitations before locking a production architecture.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2d ago First seen · 127 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A a0a1060adb81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dotnet-microsoft-agent-framework is a skill published in the GitHub repository managedcode/PrompterOne (42 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,538 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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