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What should I use if Microsoft Agent 365 is down?

The top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives to Microsoft Agent 365 are Paperclip, Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph. Full list and tier rankings are on this page.

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Last editorial review: 2026-11-02

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SEPTEMBER 2026 UPDATE (posted 2026-09-30): 'Since launching Agent 365 in May 2026, nearly 50 million agents have been registered across tens of thousands of organizations.' 'Now generally available, Tools management in Agent 365 expands the centralized governance experience beyond MCP servers to include plugins, skills, and connectors.' Public previews: AI mode (natural-language registry search), Agent Management Rules (automatic blocking or policy actions), and custom MCP servers registered via the Agent 365 CLI and submitted for admin approval. The Azure API Management integration began rolling out September 30. Cost management (FinOps for AI) 'is included with Microsoft cloud subscriptions'

2026-09-30•Microsoft Tech Community: What's new in Agent 365 - September 2026

JULY 2026 UPDATE (posted 2026-08-04): registry sync is GA -- 'Supported platforms at general availability include Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Anthropic Claude, Databricks Genie, Salesforce Agentforce. Additionally, Snowflake, Oracle OCI, and UIPath to follow soon.' Agents sync on a daily or weekly cadence, and where platform APIs allow, admins can take governance actions directly. The update also added partner risk signals from Cyera, Darktrace, and Zenity and multi-tenant management

2026-08-04•Microsoft Tech Community: What's new in Agent 365 - July 2026

JUNE 2026 UPDATE (posted 2026-07-08): the GA-time promise to expand beyond OpenClaw is delivered. 'With local agents now in the Agent 365 registry (public preview), IT and security teams gain a unified view of shadow local agents detected across the environment', showing publisher, detected device count, and last-scanned date per agent. Microsoft Purview Audit 'introduces support for emerging local and developer-focused agents, including GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and OpenClaw', and Defender and Purview protections for local agents are in public preview

2026-07-08•Microsoft Tech Community: What's new in Agent 365 - June 2026

Microsoft Agent 365 went GA on 2026-05-01 with Shadow AI Discovery covering 'local AI agents running on Windows devices, starting with OpenClaw agents and expanding soon to other widely used agents like GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code' (that expansion arrived in the June 2026 update -- see above). Multi-cloud registry sync shipped at GA for AWS Bedrock + Google Cloud connections, not just Azure

2026-05-01•Microsoft Security Blog (microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/01/microsoft-agent-365-now-generally-available-expands-capabilities-and-integrations/), Microsoft Learn

Pairs with the Anthropic OpenClaw lockout (2026-04-04, enforced 4/10) -- enterprises that had OpenClaw running unmonitored against Claude Pro/Max are now both billed differently AND visible to Microsoft Agent 365's Shadow AI Discovery. The compliance-and-cost story for unmanaged agentic stacks just changed materially in the same window

2026-05-01•Microsoft Security Blog 2026-05-01, TechCrunch (Anthropic ban 2026-04-10)

Windows 365 for Agents is in public preview at GA -- it provides a secure cloud-VM environment specifically for agents to run in, isolated from human user sessions. Useful for high-risk autonomous workloads but expect preview-tier limits and rough edges through 2026-Q3

2026-05-01•Microsoft Security Blog

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if Microsoft Agent 365 is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

Paperclip

8.6

Open-source orchestration layer that turns your AI agents into a company -- org charts, budgets, governance, and heartbeats for the whole team

Microsoft Agent Framework

8.4

Microsoft's MIT-licensed open-source agent orchestration framework -- GA 2026-04-03 and now shipping weekly releases (Python 1.24.0 and .NET 1.27.0 on 2026-10-30). Merges Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single SDK. Python and .NET, plus a Go SDK in public preview. Native MCP and A2A protocol support. Connectors for Foundry, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Claude, Bedrock, Gemini, Mistral, Ollama

LangGraph

8.3

LangChain's graph-based framework for building stateful, controllable multi-agent and human-in-the-loop AI workflows. **LangGraph v1.2 (2026-05-12) shipped DeltaChannel beta** -- incremental delta state storage instead of full-state-per-step checkpoints, with ~41x storage reduction in LangChain's 200-turn coding-agent benchmark

CrewAI

8.0

Python framework for building multi-agent systems with role-based agents, tasks, and sequential or hierarchical processes

Intent (formerly Intent by Augment)

8.0

Spec-driven multi-agent orchestration for code -- a free Apache 2.0 desktop app for agent coordination that originated as Intent by Augment and now lives at intentapp.dev. Coordinator + implementor + verifier agents in isolated workspaces, with Auggie, Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Grok Build, OpenCode, Pi, and Unsloth as swappable providers. macOS, with Windows and Linux in Alpha

About Microsoft Agent 365

Tier B (7.5/10). Microsoft's enterprise control plane for AI agents -- GA 2026-05-01, with nearly 50 million agents registered by 2026-09-30. Local-agent registry (public preview) plus Purview Audit for GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and OpenClaw; registry sync GA for Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud, Anthropic Claude, Databricks Genie, and Salesforce Agentforce. $15/user/month paid yearly, or included in Microsoft 365 E7 ($99/user/month)

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