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. |
| Create a voice-based prompt agent | Create a managed real-time voice agent, connect over WebSocket, and complete a spoken turn. |
| Optimize a prompt agent | Run the agent optimizer in the portal to improve a prompt agent’s instructions, tool descriptions, and model selection, then promote the best candidate. |
| 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. |