Layer researchAgent platform
Vendor landscape
As of 2026-08-19. Vendor capability claims are vendor-published unless third-party sourced. Re-verify quarterly.
- Vendor / product
- LangGraph / LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Google ADK, CrewAI, Pydantic AI
- Category
- Frameworks
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Active
- Notes
- Roughly 18% of instrumented organisations use any recognised framework
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft Agent Framework
- Category
- Framework (consolidated)
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- 1.0 GA Apr 2026, surface still moving through Jul 2026
- Notes
- Merged two predecessors; churn is the cost of buying in [vendor]
- Vendor / product
- Bedrock AgentCore, Vertex Agent Engine, Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
- Category
- Managed runtimes
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- GA
- Notes
- Explicitly framework-agnostic; the runtime is becoming the portable substrate [vendor]
- Vendor / product
- Temporal, Restate, DBOS, Inngest
- Category
- Durable execution
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Production
- Notes
- Checkpoints preserve data, not execution; a run in one process dies with it [vendor]
- Vendor / product
- Agent Skills (open format)
- Category
- Capability packaging
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Cross-vendor adoption through 2026
- Notes
- The one artifact that genuinely ports; distribution and admin management still unsolved
- Vendor / product
- A2A
- Category
- Inter-agent protocol
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- v1.0 stable, 150+ organisations
- Notes
- Landed in major platforms; production evidence still thin
Agent-washing watch: orchestration you cannot inspect; "autonomous" claims with no published termination conditions; skill marketplaces whose listings are single-version and unmaintained.
Source: research/R07-agent-platform/vendors.md in the evidence repository behind this site.