What problem does it solve?
This Skill eliminates fragmented, error-prone setup work by giving a single operational guide for deploying, invoking, evaluating, monitoring, and troubleshooting Microsoft Foundry agents and related infrastructure.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Agent lifecycle orchestration: create, deploy, invoke, troubleshoot, and redeploy Foundry agents (prompt and hosted) with clear routing to purpose-built sub-skills.
- Eval-driven quality improvement: build/refresh evaluation datasets, run batch evaluations, analyze failures, optimize prompts/instructions, compare versions, and enable continuous monitoring.
- Infrastructure essentials: create Foundry projects/resources, handle RBAC, quota/capacity decisions, and deploy models with intelligent routing—while enforcing pre-flight discovery rules (MCP tool discovery and sub-skill document reads).
Quick Start
Deploy a Foundry hosted agent using the microsoft-foundry skill, then immediately invoke it and run evals to spot optimization opportunities.