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Microsoft open-sources Agensh: a decentralized framework that supports 1024 autonomous, collaboratively operating AI coding agents.

On October 25, 2026, Microsoft Research open-sourced Agensh, a multi-agent runtime framework that operates without a central coordinator, enabling 1 to 1,024 LLM-powered coding agents to self-organize and collaborate on ProgramBench. The system achieves decentralized coordination through shared dashboards inspired by Gitea, Mattermost, and DeLM, with all agents following the same prompt-driven five-step loop; its scalability has been validated in a Linux + Docker environment.

Why it matters：This achievement represents a significant evolution in multi-agent system architectures—abandoning the traditional “master‑agent” paradigm and enabling large‑scale self‑organization through prompt engineering and lightweight service composition. Empirical results on ProgramBench (e.g., 128 agents achieving a 49% improvement in task load balancing across five tasks) establish a new benchmark for distributed AI engineering. Released under the MIT License and compatible with mainstream single‑agent tools such as Copilot CLI, it offers valuable guidance for practical development.