What does it really take to ship an AI agent?

https://ai.azure.com
https://aka.ms/InsideMicrosoftFoundryPlaylist

Meet Sparkles, a cupcake-ordering agent built with Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Agent Framework. Follow the full development cycle: connect to a deployed model, load the shop’s persona and welcome banner from MCP prompts, call live Cupcake Store tools, inspect execution traces, and evaluate the resulting conversations.

0:00 - The Agent Production Problem
0:36 - Choosing From a Wide Array of Models
0:56 - Building an Agent in the Portal
1:09 - Building in Code: Agent Framework & SDK
1:41 - Tracing Tokens, Cost, and Latency
2:29 - Evaluating Agent Quality
3:02 - Monitoring Agents at Scale
3:22 - Governance, Security, and Guardrails

#Microsoft #MicrosoftFoundry #AIAgent