The Actor Model for Agents — Async Messages and Typed Runtimes
Agents as actors: async message exchange, event-driven handlers, fault isolation, natural concurrency. AutoGen v0.4 (Microsoft Research, Jan 2025) redesigned agent orchestration around this model; the framework is now in maintenance mode, with Microsoft Agent Framework (public preview Oct 2025) as its production successor.
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