# Microsoft Research — Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

- Company: Microsoft Research (microsoft.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-03T16:00:00+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Subject: Research / Phi
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Orchard-SWE, Orchard-GUI, Orchard-Claw
- Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/orchard-an-open-framework-for-scalable-agentic-ai/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2455-orchard-an-open-framework-for-scalable-agentic-ai

Microsoft Research released Orchard, an open-source framework for scalable agentic AI, including three domain-specific training recipes (Orchard-SWE, Orchard-GUI, Orchard-Claw) and associated training data and evaluation methods.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/orchard-an-open-framework-for-scalable-agentic-ai/:

> Orchard is an open-source framework for scalable and cost-effective agentic AI research, built around Orchard Env, a reusable environment service for training and evaluating agents across task domains.

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