Agent harness

Concept

Software layer around a language model that provides tools, permissions, memory, evaluation and limits so an agent can act safely and reproducibly.

Sessions on this topic (6)

• GitHub Copilot Harness in Copilot Studio: Build, Evaluate, Budget · Wario Wario · M365Con 2027
• How Coding Agents Actually Work: Tools, MCP, and the Agent Loop · Tore Nestenius · M365Con 2027
• Give Your Agent Hands, Not the Keys: Building an Agent Harness in .NET · Saeed Esmaeelinejad · M365Con 2027
• GitHub Copilot Harness in Copilot Studio: Build, Evaluate, Budget · Wario Wario · M365Con 2027
• How Coding Agents Actually Work: Tools, MCP, and the Agent Loop · Tore Nestenius · M365Con 2027
• Give Your Agent Hands, Not the Keys: Building an Agent Harness in .NET · Saeed Esmaeelinejad · M365Con 2027

Glossary

Related topics in brief

• Agent loop · Related to · Concept
  Control cycle in which an AI agent plans, calls tools, observes the result and repeats until the goal is reached or it must hand over to a human.
• AI agent · Related to · Concept
  A software system that uses an AI model to pursue a goal on its own: it plans steps, calls tools or APIs, reads data and acts, often with a human approving critical steps. Agents go beyond chatbots because they take actions, not just answer questions.
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) · Related to · Concept
  An open protocol that lets AI applications connect to tools and data sources in a standard way. An MCP server exposes capabilities, and any compatible agent can discover and call them.
• GitHub Copilot · Related to · Product
  An AI coding assistant that suggests code, explains it, writes tests and, in agent mode, carries out multi-step changes in a repository under the developer's review.
• Copilot Studio · Related to · Product
  Microsoft's low-code platform for building, customising and publishing AI agents and copilots. Makers define topics, knowledge sources, actions and flows and can publish the result to Teams, websites or Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• Agentic SDLC · Related to · Concept
  Software development lifecycle in which AI agents take part in requirements, coding, testing, review and operations under human oversight.
• Saeed Esmaeelinejad · Related to · Person
  Saeed Esmaeelinejad is a speaker at M365Con 2027 (Senior Software Engineer) with 1 session.
• Tore Nestenius · Related to · Person
  Tore Nestenius is a speaker at M365Con 2027 (Consultant and Trainer at Tore Nestenius Datakonsult AB) with 1 session.
• Wario Wario · Related to · Person
  Wario Wario is a speaker at M365Con 2026 and M365Con 2027 (Founder and AI Architect at Haki Solutions) with 2 sessions.

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