{"id":2896,"date":"2026-09-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:11:07","slug":"foundry-devpack-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/foundry-devpack-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Foundry Dev Pack: One Command to Start Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Setting up your Microsoft Foundry environment just got a lot simpler. We launched Foundry Dev Pack to consolidate initial installation steps into a single setup process.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundry Dev Pack is an all-in-one installer that prepares your machine for Foundry development by installing the tools that you\u2019ll need across your terminal, IDE, or coding agents.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2026\/09\/foundry-dev-pack.gif\" alt=\"Foundry Dev Pack\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Depending on your environment, the Dev Pack can install:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Foundry Command Line Tools<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Scaffold, deploy, evaluate, and automate from the terminal. Includes Azure CLI (<code>az<\/code>), Azure Developer CLI (<code>azd<\/code>) and the Microsoft Foundry Extension for <code>azd<\/code>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/foundry\/how-to\/develop\/use-microsoft-foundry-skill\">Microsoft Foundry Skill<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Give coding agents reusable guidance for Foundry workflows.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/foundry\/how-to\/develop\/get-started-projects-visual-studio-code\">Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Build, test, evaluate, and deploy from the VS Code editor. Installed only if VS Code is present.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/foundry\/agents\/concepts\/foundry-canvas\">Foundry Canvas (preview)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Design and deploy hosted agents from a guided canvas. Installed only if GitHub Copilot App is present.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you prefer the terminal, VS Code, or a coding agent, Foundry Dev Pack supports them all and gives you one place to start building. For more details, see our <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/foundrydevpack\">docs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Get Started<\/h2>\n<p>Install Foundry Dev Pack using the command for your operating system:<\/p>\n<h3>Windows<\/h3>\n<pre><code class=\"language-powershell\">winget install Microsoft.FoundryDevPack<\/code><\/pre>\n<h3>macOS<\/h3>\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">brew install --cask microsoft\/foundry\/devpack &amp;&amp; foundry-devpack install<\/code><\/pre>\n<h3>Linux<\/h3>\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">curl -fsSL https:\/\/aka.ms\/foundry-devpack-install.sh | bash<\/code><\/pre>\n<h2>Build an Agent<\/h2>\n<p>To begin building your first agent, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/foundry\/agents\/quickstarts\/quickstart-hosted-agent?pivots=azd\">this quickstart<\/a>, or choose one of the following tools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CLI<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Run <code>azd ai agent init<\/code> to create your first agent from a template.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>VS Code<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Look for the Foundry extension in the left Activity Bar to explore templates or create a custom agent.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Coding Agent<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Leverage the Foundry skill by asking your coding agent:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><code class=\"language-text\">Create my Foundry hosted agent end to end.<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Welcome to a simpler way to develop with Microsoft Foundry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foundry Dev Pack prepares your machine for Microsoft Foundry development with an all-in-one installer for the tools you need across the terminal, VS Code, and coding agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39999,"featured_media":2897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[182,2],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-foundry","tag-dev-tools","tag-microsoft-foundry"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Foundry Dev Pack prepares your machine for Microsoft Foundry development with an all-in-one installer for the tools you need across the terminal, VS Code, and coding agents.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}