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Agent Harness: Scaling the claw or harness capabilities

Part 3 of Build your own claw and harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. In Part 2 our personal finance assistant learned to work with your data safely: it reads your portfolio, asks before it trades, and remembers what matters across sessions. It's useful - but everything it knows is...
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Don't rewrite your CLI for agents

There's advice making the rounds: replace your CLI args with a single --json payload so agents can use your tool more effectively. The thinking being, that agents already think in structured formats, and nested data maps cleanly to JSON. Flat args on the other hand, force awkward...
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Jun 3, 2026
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Announcing Foundry Managed Compute: Run open models in Microsoft Foundry

Manoj Bableshwar
Microsoft Foundry Managed Compute is a new GPU platform-as-a-service for hosting open-source and custom AI models behind the same endpoint, SDKs, and bill as frontier models.
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Jun 3, 2026
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Introducing Agent Optimizer in Foundry Agent Service

Luis,
Victor
With hosted agents, we made it straightforward to build and deploy agents on Foundry. You write your logic, run azd deploy, and your agent is live. But “live” and “production-ready” aren’t the same thing. The gap shows up quickly. Your customer support agent handles...
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Jun 3, 2026
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Making agent memory more reliable, transparent, and production-ready

Lewis Liu
Memory has always mattered for personalization and continuity. But as customers move agents from demos into production, another requirement becomes just as important: reliability.   Enterprise teams need agents that not only remember facts, but also apply what they have learned to...
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Jun 3, 2026
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Discovery to Execution: Scaling Agents with Toolboxes and Routines in Microsoft Foundry

Linda,
Maria
Tooling doesn’t break at a small scale—it breaks when teams move to production. AI adoption accelerates, so does the number of tools available to them. Discovering, managing and securing the right tools has quickly become one of the biggest challenges in building production-grade...
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Jun 3, 2026
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From Building Agents to Working with Them: Enterprise Agent Distribution in Microsoft Foundry

Amanda Foster
The past year was about building agents. The next year is about putting them to work.  Organizations have moved quickly from experimenting with AI agents to building ones that perform complex business processes and execute long-running tasks. But the bottleneck has shifted. The...
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Jun 3, 2026
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Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc's unidirectional rotation algorithm

Raymond Chen
We've seen this before.
The Old New Thing
Jun 2, 2026
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Build smarter document workflows: What's new in Azure Content Understanding at Build 2026

Peyton,
Joe,
Ronak
Azure Content Understanding (CU) in Foundry Tools is Microsoft's comprehensive content AI service. It ingests diverse data types — documents, audio, images, and video — and extracts the most critical information to power well-grounded, reliable generative AI and agentic solutions....
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Jun 2, 2026
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Build, scale, and monetize apps and agents with Microsoft Marketplace

Cyril Belikoff
At Microsoft Build, we are sharing how Microsoft Marketplace brings development, distribution, and monetization together— so apps and agents move beyond prototyping into real-world usage at scale. Microsoft Marketplace connects tens of thousands of cloud and AI solutions built by...
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Jun 2, 2026
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Introducing azure-functions-skills: An AI-Era Workspace for Azure Functions (Preview)

Tsuyoshi Ushio
azure-functions-skills gives GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code, Codex CLI, and VS Code the skills, MCP configuration, hooks, and instructions needed to create, diagnose, deploy, and validate Azure Functions projects end-to-end.
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