AI Open-Source Efficiency Guide

Aug 5, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Orchard: Microsoft’s Open‑Source Agent Framework Hits 0.28 s Latency with 1,000 Sandboxes

Orchard is Microsoft’s open‑source, Kubernetes‑native agent modeling platform that isolates execution in lightweight sandboxes, separates control‑plane operations, supports arbitrary base images and multiple built‑in harnesses, and—according to official benchmarks—delivers an average command latency of 0.28 seconds when running 1,000 concurrent sandboxes.