Build and Ship a Hosted Agent with VS Code AI Toolkit & Microsoft Foundry

Description

In this step-by-step demo, we'll walk through the e-2-e journey of an AI engineer building an agentic AI solution using the AI Toolkit in VS Code and Microsoft Foundry. We start with model selection using GitHub Copilot and the Model Catalog. Next, we prototype an agent in the Agent Builder UI, add tools, and test prompts in the playground with grounded business data. Then we migrate from UI to a hosted agent template, extend it with custom Python functions, and debug locally. Finally, we deploy to Foundry and operationalize with evaluation runs, AI Red Teaming to assess attacks, and monitoring dashboards to track quality, usage, latency, and cost across our agents' fleet. Learn more: - https://aka.ms/zava-sales-manager-hosted-agent-repo - https://aka.ms/aitoolkit - https://aka.ms/microsoft-foundry-doc #microsoftreactor #learnconnectbuild [eventID:26884]