> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Microsoft Foundry quickstarts

> Find a Microsoft Foundry quickstart. Create resources, build your first agent, deploy hosted agents, and evaluate and trace them.

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](/get-started/quickstart-create-foundry-resources) | Create a Foundry project, deploy a model, and grant your team access. |

## Build your first agent

| Quickstart                                                    | Description                                                                           |
| ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Create a prompt agent](/get-started/prompt-agent)            | Build a prompt agent with the Microsoft Foundry SDK.                                  |
| [Build agents using the Responses API](/agents/responses-api) | Call the Responses API from your own code with the Agent Framework or the OpenAI SDK. |
| [Chat with an agent in code](/get-started/get-started-code)   | Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK to build an AI chat application.                        |

## Deploy hosted agents

| Quickstart                                                                                      | Description                                                                                                                    |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| [Deploy a hosted agent](/agents/quickstart-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](/agents/quickstart-deploy-own-code)                    | Add one hosting library to your existing Python agent and deploy it.                                                           |
| [Build a toolbox and use it with a hosted agent](/agents/quickstart-toolbox-agent)              | Combine web search and the Microsoft Learn MCP server, then use the toolbox from a hosted agent.                               |
| [Give a hosted agent persistent memory](/agents/quickstart-memory-hosted-agent)                 | 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](/agents/quickstart-foundry-iq-hosted-agent) | Ground a hosted agent in a Foundry IQ knowledge base exposed through a toolbox.                                                |
| [Optimize a hosted agent](/agents/quickstart-optimize-hosted-agent)                             | Run the agent optimizer to automatically improve a hosted agent's instructions, then deploy the winning candidate.             |
| [Create a CI/CD pipeline](/agents/set-up-cicd-hosted-agent)                                     | 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](/agents/quickstart-evaluate-hosted-agent) | Generate a test suite, run an evaluation, and review the results.   |
| [Trace your hosted agent](/agents/quickstart-tracing-hosted-agent)  | View end-to-end traces with built-in OpenTelemetry instrumentation. |

## Related content

* [What is Microsoft Foundry?](../what-is-foundry)
* [Choose how to build](/agents/choose-build-approach)