From c660797fb3cbbc421dcf4b9db4000d6ef7f3764d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Research Lead Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:12:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?chore(eco-watch):=202026-04-15=20PM=20survey=20?= =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=94=20Microsoft=20Agent=20Framework,=20Vercel=20Open=20Ag?= =?UTF-8?q?ents?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Two new entries added from the second daily pass (first run merged as PR #150 at 03:20 UTC). Both surfaced in the afternoon trending windows and were not covered by the morning run. - microsoft/agent-framework (~9.5k ⭐): official Microsoft successor to AutoGen; ships migration guide and April 2026 .NET release. Directly affects our autogen adapter in workspace-template/adapters/. Filed issue #156 to evaluate adapter update. - vercel-labs/open-agents (~2.2k ⭐, +1,020 today): cloud coding agent template from Vercel Labs (same team as Skills CLI). Notable for agent-outside-sandbox architecture and snapshot-based VM resumption — a more efficient approach than our current Docker restart + git-clone pattern. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 --- docs/ecosystem-watch.md | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/ecosystem-watch.md b/docs/ecosystem-watch.md index 0a81a636..3ee9f4fb 100644 --- a/docs/ecosystem-watch.md +++ b/docs/ecosystem-watch.md @@ -854,6 +854,46 @@ builders; Molecule AI users are developers building agent companies. **Last reviewed:** 2026-04-15 · **Stars / activity:** Anthropic cloud feature, 611 HN pts today (item 47768133) +--- + +### Microsoft Agent Framework — `microsoft/agent-framework` + +**Pitch:** "A framework for building, orchestrating and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows with support for Python and .NET." + +**Shape:** Python + C#/.NET (MIT), ~9.5k ⭐, April 2026 active releases. Graph-based workflow engine with streaming, checkpointing, and human-in-the-loop approval gates. Supports Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, and OpenAI. Ships a DevUI for interactive debugging, OpenTelemetry observability, and "AF Labs" (experimental RL-based features). Ships a migration guide from AutoGen — this is the official Microsoft successor to `microsoft/autogen`. + +**Overlap with us:** Our workspace-template adapters target AutoGen/AG2; this is the official Microsoft path forward, making our adapter coverage incomplete. HITL approval gates and graph-based multi-agent routing mirror our `approvals` table + delegation chain. + +**Differentiation:** Orchestration SDK only — no persistent agent memory, no org-chart canvas, no A2A between independently deployed agents, no scheduling, no channel integrations. + +**Worth borrowing:** DevUI interactive debugging panel (inspect agent state mid-run without a full canvas). AF Labs RL routing — agents improve delegation decisions from past run outcomes; worth evaluating for our PM workspace's `delegate_task` routing. + +**Terminology collisions:** "middleware" — their processing pipeline hook; undefined in our platform. "graph" — their workflow DAG vs our live org chart (same word, different semantics). + +**Signals to react to:** If AF 1.0 achieves enterprise adoption → update our autogen adapter to target `microsoft/agent-framework`. If AF Labs RL ships stable → evaluate for dynamic PM routing based on workspace performance history. + +**Last reviewed:** 2026-04-15 · **Stars / activity:** ~9.5k ⭐, April 2026 .NET release, official AutoGen successor + +--- + +### Open Agents — `vercel-labs/open-agents` + +**Pitch:** "An open-source reference app for building and running background coding agents on Vercel — fork it, adapt it, ship your own cloud coding agent." + +**Shape:** TypeScript (MIT), ~2.2k ⭐, +1,020 today. Three-layer architecture: web UI → agent workflow (Vercel Workflow SDK for durable execution) → isolated sandbox VM. Key design principle: **agent runs *outside* the sandbox VM** and interacts with it through tools — not co-located. Snapshot-based VM resumption, auto-commit/push/PR, session sharing via read-only links, voice input. From Vercel Labs — same team as the Skills CLI entry above. + +**Overlap with us:** Vercel Workflow SDK gives checkpoint-and-resume durability — the same gap our workspace restart-context solves ad hoc. Agent-outside-sandbox mirrors our Docker workspace + adapter separation. Auto-PR creation is a first-class feature we implement manually. + +**Differentiation:** Single coding agent, no org hierarchy, no A2A, no scheduling, no persistent memory across sessions, no channels. A reference template, not an operational platform. + +**Worth borrowing:** Snapshot-based sandbox resumption — preserves VM state across agent restarts without re-cloning the repo. More efficient than our current Docker restart + `git clone` approach for long-running workspace tasks. + +**Terminology collisions:** "workflow" — Vercel's durable execution primitive; our informal delegation chain term. + +**Signals to react to:** If Vercel Workflow SDK becomes a standard durable-execution backend → evaluate as a drop-in for `workspace_schedules` on Vercel-hosted deployments. If open-agents adds multi-agent coordination → direct competitor reference app with Vercel distribution. + +**Last reviewed:** 2026-04-15 · **Stars / activity:** ~2.2k ⭐, +1,020 today, Vercel Labs + --- ## Candidates to add (backlog)