Deployment & Scaling · Practitioner
Foundry Agent Service: Prompt Agents, Hosted Agents and Tools
Azure's managed runtime for agents - what the service gives you for free, the difference between a declarative agent and one running your own code, and the resources you must provision yourself.
- 55 min lesson
- intermediate level
- Azure AI Track
- Narrated presentation
What you’ll learn
- Managed agent loop with threads, tool invocation and tracing
- Prompt agents (declarative) versus hosted agents (your own code, service-run)
- Knowledge tools, action tools, code interpreter and MCP connections
- Basic setup uses Microsoft-managed storage; standard setup uses your own storage, search and Cosmos DB
- Long-running runs and asynchronous client design
- Step-level tracing into Application Insights as a day-one requirement
Inside this lesson
A narrated, slide-by-slide presentation with 1 prediction exercise, 1 knowledge check, 3 videos. You answer as you go, and the platform checks your work.