Microsoft Foundry

Public Preview: Foundry Routines in Foundry Agent Service

In public preview, Foundry Agent Service adds Foundry Routines, a native trigger primitive for running published agents automatically.

Generally Available: Publishing Microsoft Foundry agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams

Publishing Microsoft Foundry agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams is now generally available.

Public Preview: Network egress controls for hosted agents in Microsoft Foundry

In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now lets customers govern the outbound connections a hosted agent can make.

Generally Available: Enable and disable controls for Microsoft Foundry agents in Agent 365

Microsoft Foundry now exposes enable and disable actions for Foundry agent objects within the Agent 365 governance surface in Microsoft Admin Center, generally available.

Generally Available: Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension Framework

The Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension Framework is now generally available. The framework enables developers, teams, and partners to extend Azure Developer CLI with custom capabilities that support their preferred application development workflows.

Public Preview: Protect sensitive generative AI telemetry in Application Insights and Microsoft Foundry

Azure Monitor Application Insights now stores generative AI content in a dedicated GenAIContent table (AppGenAIContent in Log Analytics), making it possible to apply newly available access controls to sensitive AI telemetry.

Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for Agent Harness, the production runtime for agents built with the framework.

Announcing: DevUI Agent Inspector for Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Agent Framework adds DevUI Agent Inspector in public preview, a local debugging surface that shows agent runs as a navigable tree of model calls, tool invocations, and intermediate state.

Announcing: Episodic procedural memory in Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Agent Framework adds episodic procedural memory in public preview, a built-in store that lets agents remember successful task patterns and replay them on similar future requests.

Announcing: CodeAct pattern and Hyperlight containers in Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Agent Framework adds the CodeAct pattern in public preview, which lets agents collapse a multi-step plan into a single executable code block rather than chaining one tool call at a time.

Announcing: Multi-agent orchestration patterns including Magentic in Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for multi-agent orchestration patterns, including the dynamic Magentic pattern that delivered 38 percent on GAIA and competitive results on AssistantBench and WebArena in published benchmarks.

Announcing: Tracing for Microsoft Agent Framework (Python and.NET)

In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now offers tracing for the Microsoft Agent Framework in both Python and.NET, helping developers observe how agents reason, call tools, and interact with models during execution.

Announcing: Multi-agent orchestration SDK with the Microsoft Foundry Agent Framework in C# and Python

Microsoft Foundry is now introducing Agent Framework, a unified multi-agent orchestration SDK for C# and Python.

Public Preview: Document PII playground sample in Microsoft Foundry NextGen

Document-based PII detection in Azure AI Language now ships an initial playground experience in the Microsoft Foundry NextGen portal.

Generally Available: Document PII NextGen Playground in Azure AI Language

Azure AI Language now offers a refreshed Document PII playground in general availability, giving customers a faster way to evaluate personally identifiable information detection on documents.

Generally Available: Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft Foundry brings Toolboxes to GA, providing a unified endpoint to invoke the most-used tools in prompt agents and callable outside of prompt agents.

Generally Available: Microsoft Foundry IQ

Microsoft Foundry IQ reaches general availability, giving developers a managed knowledge layer that grounds agents in enterprise data without rebuilding retrieval pipelines for each project.

Public Preview: Fabric IQ Ontology Knowledge Source in Microsoft Foundry IQ

Microsoft Foundry IQ now treats a Microsoft Fabric Ontology as a federated knowledge source in public preview, giving agents a way to query the semantic layer customers already curate in Fabric.

Public Preview: Azure SQL as a knowledge source in Foundry IQ

Microsoft Foundry adds Azure SQL Database as a first-class Knowledge Source in Azure AI Search, available in public preview.

Public Preview: APIM Support for Foundry Models in Azure AI Search

Microsoft Foundry brings Azure API Management support to all Foundry model integrations in Azure AI Search, now in public preview.