# Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

DevFeed: [Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/orchard-an-open-framework-for-scalable-agentic-ai-6806.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/orchard-an-open-framework-for-scalable-agentic-ai/>)

Author: Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Qianhui Wu, Hao Cheng, Jianfeng Gao

Published: 2026-08-03T16:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Microsoft Research](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/microsoft-research.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [AI Research](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-research.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Frameworks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frameworks.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Reinforcement learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reinforcement-learning.md>), [computer-use](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/computer-use.md>), [codex](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/codex.md>), [OpenClaw](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openclaw.md>)

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## AI overview

Orchard is an open-source framework for training and evaluating agentic AI systems across software engineering, web navigation, and personal-assistant tasks. Its reusable Orchard Env provides Kubernetes-based infrastructure for data collection, reinforcement-learning rollouts, and evaluation, while Orchard-SWE, Orchard-GUI, and Orchard-Claw demonstrate strong results from relatively small open-weight models.

## Source excerpt

Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by enabling researchers to reuse the same infrastructure. The post Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI appeared first on Microsoft Research.