Explore Microsoft's agent ecosystem, learn key concepts, and find resources to plan, build, adopt, and continuously improve AI agents for your organization.
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Find your place in the agent ecosystem
From high‑level, guided experiences to fully customizable agent platforms, choose the right level of abstraction and control—whether you’re building, customizing, or adopting agents.
Agents in the Microsoft ecosystem go beyond generating responses—they interpret intent, plan work, and take action on your behalf. Work IQ powers their reasoning, tool use, and persistent memory of how your teams work.
Microsoft agents have first‑class identities, distinct from users and apps. Microsoft Entra Agent ID provides agent‑specific identity, ownership, and access controls for consistent authentication, logging, and governance.
Orchestration coordinates agent behavior and can be invisible or core to your design. Microsoft supports built‑in, customizable, and external orchestration.
Microsoft enables secure AI agent adoption through visibility, governance, and enforceable controls—spanning identity, runtime safeguards, and data protection aligned with security, compliance, and Responsible AI principles.
Plan for business value, implement the right foundations, drive adoption through people and processes, manage agents at scale, and continuously improve outcomes.
