Microsoft Foundry quickstarts - Microsoft Foundry Docs

Get hands-on with Microsoft Foundry. Each quickstart takes you from zero to a working result in a few minutes. Pick the one that matches what you want to do.

Set up

Quickstart	Description
Create resources	Create a Foundry project, deploy a model, and grant your team access.

Build your first agent

Quickstart	Description
Create a prompt agent	Build a prompt agent with the Microsoft Foundry SDK.
Build agents using the Responses API	Call the Responses API from your own code with the Agent Framework or the OpenAI SDK.
Chat with an agent in code	Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK to build an AI chat application.

Deploy hosted agents

Quickstart	Description
Deploy a hosted agent	Deploy a containerized agent with the Azure Developer CLI or the Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code.
Deploy your own code as a hosted agent	Add one hosting library to your existing Python agent and deploy it.
Build a toolbox and use it with a hosted agent	Combine web search and the Microsoft Learn MCP server, then use the toolbox from a hosted agent.
Give a hosted agent persistent memory	Provision a Foundry memory store and deploy a Python hosted agent that remembers facts about each user across sessions.
Add a Foundry IQ knowledge base to a hosted agent	Ground a hosted agent in a Foundry IQ knowledge base exposed through a toolbox.
Optimize a hosted agent	Run the agent optimizer to automatically improve a hosted agent’s instructions, then deploy the winning candidate.
Create a CI/CD pipeline	Establish a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for a hosted agent in Microsoft Foundry project.

Evaluate and trace

Quickstart	Description
Evaluate a hosted agent	Generate a test suite, run an evaluation, and review the results.
Trace your hosted agent	View end-to-end traces with built-in OpenTelemetry instrumentation.

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