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Microsoft Foundry

The AI app and agent factory

Microsoft Foundry is the enterprise AI platform to build, ground, and govern AI apps and agents at scale. It brings together your full agent lifecycle with open development, built-in intelligence, and consistent security, compliance, and policy controls across every agent.

Models that deliver, optimized for innovation

Access a curated catalog of leading foundation, open-source, and partner models with various capabilities, performance trade-offs, and use cases so you can move from experimentation to production confidently.

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Simple to build, open by design

Build powerful agents fast using familiar tools, open standards, and plug-and-play memory, knowledge, and tool integrations all in one unified developer-first platform.
Microsoft Foundry interface showing a customizable AI agent workspace with a left navigation panel for configuring model deployment, instructions, tools, knowledge, memory, and guardrails. The main workspace displays tabs for chat, YAML, and code configuration, with controls to preview and publish the agent from a single unified interface.

Configure and govern agents in one unified platform

Build agents with your choice of model, tools, knowledge, memory, and guardrails. Assign Microsoft Entra Agent IDs for centralized identity and policy enforcement, then test and publish from a single canvas with enterprise-grade governance built in.
Interface for configuring an AI agent, including selecting models and defining agent settings

Build custom agents with frameworks and models

Develop agents with your choice of language models, frameworks, and protocols and bring your custom-code agents into Microsoft Foundry with ease.
Evaluation panel displaying AI agent inputs, outputs, and assessment results for monitoring performance and quality

Measure and improve agent quality with built-in observability

Inspect traces, evaluate runs, and monitor production performance with centralized observability and full traceability for enterprise-scale security, audit, and compliance requirements.

Powerful to deploy, ready to scale

Give your agents the ability to access data, call APIs, use tools, and work together. Memory, state, and reasoning are built in so you can focus on outcome, not nuance.

Azure Logic Apps integration

Create a wide range of automated workflows with more than 1,400 connectors in Azure Logic Apps.

Hosted agents

Run custom agents in Foundry with scaling and governance.

Multi-agent workflows

Build and manage AI-driven workflows with multiple agents.

Built-in tools

Add ready-to-use tools for common enterprise needs across SharePoint, Microsoft Fabric, and Deep Research.

Model Context Protocol

Connect agents to custom APIs with Model Context Protocol (MCP) for secure, interoperable integration.

Built-in memory

Extend organizational knowledge and user context securely across every agent interaction.

One-click deployment

Deploy agents instantly to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot with one click.

Observability and guardrails

Monitor quality, cost, and safety with dashboards, tracing, red teaming, and built-in guardrails.

Trusted to operate, developer-first control

Ship confidently with enterprise-grade built-in security, compliance, and guardrails to keep your innovation safe and secure.
Dashboard showing agent performance metrics, usage data, and evaluation insights for monitoring and managing AI agents
Centralize oversight of agent behavior, usage, and performance with built-in governance and observability. Monitor, evaluate, and manage agents across environments from a single control plane.
Dashboard showing agent performance metrics, usage data, and evaluation insights for monitoring and managing AI agents

Your ideal API, unified for integration

Bring agents to life faster with an API designed for real-world development. Configure models, manage identity, and apply security and governance controls using familiar SDKs and enterprise-ready defaults.
Code example demonstrating how to call and interact with a deployed AI agent using the Foundry SDK
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Microsoft Foundry

Build, optimize, and govern AI apps and agents at scale.