Microsoft outlines its vision for an enterprise-grade AI agent platform built around five layers: building agents in GitHub, contextualizing them with Microsoft IQ (including enterprise data grounding and new MAI models), running them in production via Azure Foundry, governing them at scale with Agent 365 and the Microsoft Security stack, and continuously improving them through feedback loops and reinforcement learning. The argument is that AI model access alone is insufficient — the surrounding system for deploying, governing, and iterating on agents is what determines enterprise success. The platform integrates GitHub, Azure, Microsoft 365, Fabric, Foundry, Entra, Purview, and Defender into a single coherent stack with support for third-party agent frameworks like LangGraph and Claude Agent SDK.
