Gartner® Report on AI Agent Development Frameworks

AI agent development frameworks are an accelerator for software and AI engineering leaders to build AI capabilities into applications. This report aims to help these leaders understand what these frameworks are, how they are evolving, and what the main components of these frameworks entail. The benefits, uses, and risks of AI agent development frameworks are also discussed in this report. Lastly, Gartner lists a sample set of AI agent development frameworks and vendors to be considered.

_{Gartner, Innovation Insight: AI Agent Development Frameworks, by Tigran Egiazarov, Arun Batchu, Gary Olliffe, Jim Scheibmeir, Arun Chandrasekaran, Adrian Leow, 27 August 2025.}

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