Magnetic-One
Microsoft Research's generalist multi-agent system — Orchestrator + WebSurfer/FileSurfer/Coder/ComputerTerminal specialists. Built on AutoGen v0.4.
Deprecated · Verified 2026-10-31 · fresh as of 2026-10-31 · 17 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Microsoft generalist multi-agent vendor fix
- Tier
- T3
- Latest release
- v0.7.5 (2025-09-30) registry fix
- Pricing
- searched not found fix
- Funding
- searched not found fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-31 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 7.63 (12-mo avg 6.48) · 108 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: searched not found
Anti-fit: searched not found
Pros & cons
Pros
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Cons
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Claims & capabilities
Microsoft Research multi-agent generalist system 2024-11; coordinated team of agents (Orchestrator, WebSurfer, FileSurfer, Coder, ComputerTerminal); GAIA / WebArena results published.
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
- Self-hosted only — library (autogen-agentchat / autogen-ext)
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- yes — MCP tools via McpWorkbench / StdioServerParams in autogen_ext.tools.mcp
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Sources (16 cited facts, 1 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Microsoft generalist multi-agent vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Microsoft Research's generalist multi-agent system — Orchestrator + WebSurfer/FileSurfer… vendor
- Claims / benefits Microsoft Research multi-agent generalist system 2024-11; coordinated team of agents (Or… vendor
- Created 2024-11 vendor
- Latest release v0.7.5 (2025-09-30) registry
- License MIT vendor
- GitHub microsoft/autogen — ~62k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Deployment Self-hosted only — library (autogen-agentchat / autogen-ext) repo
- MCP support yes — MCP tools via McpWorkbench / StdioServerParams in autogen_ext.tools.mcp repo
- Runtimes Python registry
- capability-benchmark-sources gaia: 37.9% (Magentic-1 (o1), MSR AI Frontiers, test set, leaderboard entry 2024-10-19) … registry
- architecture-deployment-locus local vendor
- licensing-bucket open-source vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":193.81,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":6.48,"openrank_current":7.63,"parti… third-party
What changed
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- 2026-10-27
- Lifecycle first recorded as “superseded”
- Latest release first recorded as “v0.7.5 (2025-09-30)” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Self-hosted only — library (autogen-agentchat / autogen-ext)” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — MCP tools via McpWorkbench / StdioServerParams in autogen_ext.tools.mcp” source