Microsoft Agent vs Flow: Why Agent Framework 1.0 Changes When You Reach for Each

Most teams evaluating the Microsoft agent vs flow question ask the wrong thing. They ask "can a flow do this?" The answer is almost always yes, given enough conditions and nested scopes. The question that actually matters is: does the path change while the work runs? That is the whole split in one line. A flow executes a graph you drew in advance. An agent decides the graph at runtime. The reason to settle this now is that Microsoft Agent Framework's orchestration patterns reached 1.0 on…