Microsoft Agent 365 Reaches General Availability — Unified Enterprise AI Agent Control Plane

Summary

Microsoft released Agent 365 to general availability on May 1, 2026, establishing a unified control plane for discovering, managing, and securing AI agents across enterprise environments — both cloud-hosted agents and local agents running on Windows endpoints via Microsoft Defender and Intune. The platform explicitly names OpenClaw, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Claude Code as agents under discovery and management scope, positioning Agent 365 as the governance layer across competing tool ecosystems, n