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[Launched] Generally Available: Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry

GAVerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Microsoft Foundry brings Toolboxes to GA, providing a unified endpoint to invoke the most-used tools in prompt agents and callable outside of prompt agents. Today every agent team hand-assembles its own tool list to solve the same tasks, with no shared ar

Topics: AI agents, Developer tools

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Jul 15Announcing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework
GA
Jul 15Announcing: Multi-agent orchestration SDK with the Microsoft Foundry Agent Framework in C# and Python
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Jul 15Announcing: Tracing for Microsoft Agent Framework (Python and .NET)
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Jul 15Announcing: CodeAct pattern and Hyperlight containers in Microsoft Agent Framework
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Jul 15Announcing: Episodic procedural memory in Microsoft Agent Framework
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