This is the third post in our series on the Microsoft agent platform. We focus on the Run in Foundry pillar, taking agents from development to production with Hosted Agents, the Agent Optimizer, Rout...

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol that describes how agents can connect to external tools and data sources, and is now widely supported by the most popular coding agents (like GitHub C...

This is the second post in our series on the Microsoft agent platform. Here we dive deep into building autonomous agents, the development experience, the Microsoft Agent Framework, tool design patter...

As a GitHub administrator, you already have a strong place to start when somebody asks, “Why did our AI spend go up?” In Metered usage, you can see the change, choose the period, and group the d...

You ask a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) application a question. Vector search returns ten passages that are clearly related to the topic. The passage that actually contains the answer, howev...

From Deep Dive to Microsoft IQ Live The Microsoft IQ Deep Dive with Python has wrapped up, but our exploration of Microsoft IQ continues. You can revisit the IQ Deep Dive sessions and access the co...

As enterprise AI systems evolve from standalone models into RAG applications, copilots, and autonomous agents, one question comes up often: Should we use Microsoft Foundry or PyRIT for Red Teaming?...

At Build 2026, we previewed the future of autonomous agents on the Microsoft platform. Now, those promises are delivered. Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, the Microsoft Agent Framework, and the GitHu...

Why cloud-native and multi-agent are converging The shift from "a chatbot" to "a fleet of workers" A single LLM call is a stateless function: text in, text out. A multi-agent system is something ...

We just concluded Microsoft IQ Deep Dive with Python, a three-part livestream series all about Microsoft IQ. We showed how to use the four IQs to ground your AI applications and agents: Work IQ...