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Microsoft Foundry

13 published articles

Technical article ◆ 21 Aug 2026

Microsoft Foundry · Part 13

Use Insights to find recurring agent problems

Insights in Foundry analyzes production agent traces and groups recurring behavior into reviewable Insights with evidence and a proposed fix. Run a scan in the portal, validate an Insight, and drive the same workflow from the Python SDK.

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Technical article ◆ 18 Aug 2026

Microsoft Foundry · Part 11

Agent2Agent Communication Between Hosted Agents

Learn how two independently hosted Microsoft Foundry agents communicate through the Agent2Agent protocol, first directly and then through the Foundry A2A tool.

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Technical article ◆ 11 Aug 2026

Microsoft Foundry · Part 10

Multi-Agent Orchestration with Microsoft Agent Framework

Build production-oriented routing, sequential workflows, and concurrent specialists with Microsoft Agent Framework and Microsoft Foundry.

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Technical article ◆ 06 Aug 2026

Microsoft Foundry · Part 9

Manual Multi-Agent Orchestration with Prompt Agents

Learn the mechanics of routing, sequential orchestration, and parallel reviews by manually coordinating Microsoft Foundry prompt agents.

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Technical article ◆ 02 Aug 2026

Microsoft Foundry · Part 8

Build, deploy, and operate a hosted code agent

Build, test, deploy, and operate a hosted Microsoft Foundry agent that uses Python tools to access local data and services.

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Technical article ◆ 28 Jul 2026

Microsoft Foundry · Part 7

Using Foundry Guardrails

Create two Microsoft Foundry prompt agents from the same support scenario, one without an RAI guardrail and one with a guardrail policy, then run a built-in set of test prompts from the command line and see a clear diff of what changed.

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Technical article ◆ 25 Jul 2026

Microsoft Foundry · Part 6

Evaluate agent quality

Build a customer-support FAQ evaluation dataset, score it with Foundry evaluators, and inspect evaluation runs.

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Technical article ◆ 22 Jul 2026

Microsoft Foundry · Part 12

From Notebook to Production

Move Microsoft Foundry agents from notebooks to reliable production operations with versioning, environment promotion, safe rollouts, and guardrails.

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Technical article ◆ 13 Jul 2026

Microsoft Foundry · Part 5

Monitoring agents

Instrument Microsoft Foundry agents with traces, latency, token, and tool-call telemetry using OpenTelemetry and Application Insights.

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Technical article ◆ 09 Jul 2026

Microsoft Foundry · Part 4

Foundry IQ with multiple documents

Extend a Foundry IQ RAG pipeline to multiple PDFs with token-aware chunking, document identity, and document-level access control.

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Technical article ◆ 07 Jul 2026

Microsoft Foundry · Part 3

Foundry IQ with one document

Build a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline from one PDF with Azure AI Search, Foundry IQ, and Microsoft Foundry Agent Service.

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Technical article ◆ 01 Jul 2026

Microsoft Foundry · Part 2

MCP servers, tools, toolboxes, and memory

A practical guide to extending Microsoft Foundry agents with web search, file search, custom functions, MCP, toolboxes, and persistent memory.

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Technical article ◆ 26 Jun 2026

Microsoft Foundry · Part 1

Getting Started

A practical Python walkthrough for creating Microsoft Foundry resources and projects, deploying a model, and building your first agent.

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