ToolsThe story, in brief
Microsoft Foundry Adds Runtime, Tooling, and Governance for Production Agents
Microsoft just turned Foundry into a production agent OS. Runtime, governance, memory—everything developers need to ship agents at scale.
The KeyNews take
Why it matters
Microsoft is shifting from model endpoints to full-stack agent infrastructure. This positions Foundry as the operating system for enterprise AI agents moving past experimentation into production workflows.
The key facts
5 to knowMicrosoft Foundry announced at Build 2026
New capabilities: runtime, tools, memory, grounding, models, observability, governance
Positioning shift from AI experiments to production systems
Focus on developer tooling and observability rather than model releases
Enterprise-grade agent deployment infrastructure
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Publisher excerpt: Microsoft used their Build 2026 event to announce new functionality for Microsoft Foundry. Citing Foundry as "the place where AI agents move from experiments to production systems," in a blog post, Nick Brady writes that the release brings “runtime, tools, memory, grounding, models, observability,…