Azure AI Foundry

Companion Extension: For detailed operational playbooks (create agents, deploy containers, invoke endpoints, trace with App Insights, troubleshoot), install Azure MCP Extension (ms-azuretools.vscode-azure-mcp-server). In VS Code it also wires in the Azure Skills plugin from microsoft/azure-skills plus Foundry MCP. AgentX recommends it when Azure files are detected and the installer can add it automatically for Azure-oriented workspaces.

When to Use This Skill

• Designing agent architecture on Azure Foundry or Azure AI Agent Service
• Selecting models via GitHub Models or Azure AI model catalog (cost/quality tradeoffs)
• Planning evaluation strategy with Foundry evals (RAGAS, LLM-as-judge)
• Defining guardrails, safety instructions, and content filtering policies
• Choosing deployment patterns (managed endpoint vs AKS vs serverless)

Agent Lifecycle