---
title: "microsoft-foundry"
description: "Skills and interactive Copilot canvas for designing, configuring, testing and deploying agents to Microsoft Foundry."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/microsoft-foundry
last-updated: 2026-09-28
---

# microsoft-foundry
Skills and interactive Copilot canvas for designing, configuring, testing and deploying agents to Microsoft Foundry.
- Slug: microsoft-foundry
- Publisher: Microsoft
- Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/foundry-dev-tools
- Manifest: microsoft-foundry/plugin.json
- Version: 1.0.14
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 1 (validate-microsoft-foundry-hosted-agent)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 2055
- Repository created: 2023-12-08
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-28
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/microsoft-foundry
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What microsoft-foundry does, in the publisher's words

A GitHub Copilot App canvas extension for designing Microsoft Foundry hosted agents from a side panel. It combines live Foundry project discovery with project-aware prompts to Copilot, portal handoffs, and an embedded local Agent Inspector.

- Project picker: sign in, search subscriptions and Foundry projects, switch projects, and retain the selection across canvas reopens.
- Live project resources: browse deployed models, Foundry Toolboxes and their tools, project skills, and account guardrails.
- Project-aware chat handoff: model, toolbox, skill, guardrail, initialization, and deployment choices send a ready-to-run prompt to the current Copilot session with the selected project, subscription, and endpoint attached.
- Embedded Agent Inspector: Inspect Locally launches or reuses azd ai agent run --no-inspector in the Copilot integrated terminal, waits for the agent on port 8088, and embeds the bundled inspector. Inspector errors can be sent back to Copilot as fix requests.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/foundry-dev-tools/HEAD/microsoft-foundry/README.md

## Skills

- validate-microsoft-foundry-hosted-agent: Validate one Microsoft Foundry hosted agent against Microsoft Foundry best practices and open its validation report. Use when the user explicitly asks to validate a Foundry hosted agent or invokes this skill.

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.