Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

Microsoft · 4 weeks ago · 51

Microsoft Research released Orchard, an open-source framework with a reusable Kubernetes environment for training autonomous agents across software engineering, web navigation, and personal-assistant tasks. Orchard-SWE achieves 69.7% on SWE-bench Verified using only 3 billion active parameters, approaching systems with 10 times more parameters, while Orchard-GUI reaches 68.4% average success on web-navigation benchmarks. The release of training data, evaluation methods, and open infrastructure enables researchers to build agentic systems without proprietary sandboxes or closed pipelines.