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Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses

Our short summary of Microsoft’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

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Problem

Training agents with real-world tools was costly and mismatched the deployed version.

Solution

They built Agent Lightning v1.0, a lightweight RL framework that inserts an LLM proxy between the agent and the model, letting the same harness used in production train directly.

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.

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