Scaling the Claw: Skills, Shell, CodeAct and Background Agents

Why watch

This Microsoft Reactor session covers four new capabilities in the Microsoft Agent Framework: Skills for packaging domain knowledge like valuation and risk scoring that load on-demand, Shell access for file operations in confined directories, CodeAct for running Python code in a sandbox to perform calculations, and Background Agents for parallel ticker research. The video includes live demos of organizing trade confirmations and running portfolio calculations. Developers building AI agents will learn how to extend agent capabilities with these new patterns.