tl;dr
How do you reliably combine deterministic business logic, parallel retrieval, and noisy LLM calls in production? The Microsoft Agent Framework answers this by modeling workflows as directed graphs: Executors (the nodes) perform the work, and Edges (the connections) define how strongly‑typed messages move between them. That separation makes orchestration explicit, testable, and observable.

Why the graph model matters
Treating a workflow as a directed graph of Executors and Edges give...