What's new in Microsoft Foundry?

Welcome! This article highlights key updates for Microsoft Foundry in August 2026.

New articles

• Foundry Agent Service
  • Agent optimizer cost and token usage overview
  • Autopilot lifecycle in Microsoft Foundry
  • What is an autopilot in Microsoft Foundry?
  • Long-running agent API reference (preview)
  • Resilience for long-running Microsoft Foundry hosted agents (preview)
  • Add a human-in-the-loop approval step (preview)
  • Deploy a crash-resilient long-running agent (preview)
  • Deploy a steerable agent (preview)
  • Manage state for long-running agents (preview)
  • Bring your own registry for hosted agents
  • Create a private skill catalog in Foundry Agent Service
  • Recover long-running work after a crash (preview)
  • Steer an in-flight agent turn (preview)
  • Stream long-running agent output with reconnect (preview)
  • Network isolation for a toolbox in Microsoft Foundry
  • Quickstart: Optimize a prompt agent (preview)
• Foundry Models and APIs
  • Model migration: Upgrade or switch models in Microsoft Foundry
  • Microsoft Foundry reasoning models
  • Deploy and use Grok models in Microsoft Foundry
  • Deploy and use MAI-Thinking-1 in Microsoft Foundry
  • Evaluate model router for your workload
  • Use multi-agent orchestration with the Azure OpenAI Responses API
• Observability and evaluation
  • Evaluate conversations with the Microsoft Foundry SDK
  • Evaluate datasets with the Microsoft Foundry SDK
  • Evaluate deployed interactions with the Microsoft Foundry SDK
  • Get cloud evaluation results with the Microsoft Foundry SDK
  • Generate synthetic data with the Microsoft Foundry SDK
  • Evaluate models and agents with the Microsoft Foundry SDK
  • Run cloud evaluations with the Microsoft Foundry SDK
  • Use admin-connected models in cloud evaluations
  • Evaluation dataset schema in Microsoft Foundry
  • Evaluation datasets in Microsoft Foundry
  • Configure Microsoft Entra authentication for Foundry Agent trace ingestion (preview)
• Foundry platform
  • Microsoft Foundry product and capability map
  • Microsoft Foundry capability reference
  • Customer-managed key encryption in Microsoft Foundry
  • Microsoft Foundry Skill example prompts and scenarios
  • Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code overview
  • Install Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
  • Set up a Microsoft Foundry project in Visual Studio Code
• Responsible AI
  • Content provenance

Updated articles

• Foundry Agent Service
  • azure.yaml reference for hosted agents
  • Build with runtime components in Foundry Agent Service
  • Quickstart: Build your first autopilot
  • Run a hosted agent locally
  • Automate agents with routines (preview)
  • Quickstart: Deploy your first hosted agent
  • Create and manage a toolbox in Microsoft Foundry
  • Connect agents to Microsoft Fabric with Fabric IQ (preview)
  • Use Code Interpreter with Microsoft Foundry agents
  • Connect OpenAPI tools to Microsoft Foundry agents
  • Use web search tool in Foundry Agent Service
• Foundry Models and APIs
  • Get started with Microsoft Foundry SDKs and endpoints
  • Manage automatic upgrades from Azure OpenAI to Microsoft Foundry
  • Azure OpenAI reasoning models
• Observability and evaluation
  • Run agent evaluations with the azd CLI (preview)
  • Generate a synthetic evaluation dataset (preview)
  • Monitor agents with the Agent Monitoring Dashboard
• Foundry MCP Server
  • Explore available tools and example prompts for Foundry MCP Server (preview)
• Foundry platform
  • Quickstart: Set up Microsoft Foundry resources

For more product information about Microsoft Foundry, see the Microsoft Foundry Blog.