Foundry guidance connects agent architecture to measurable business outcomes
📚 Microsoft opened a new engineering-guidance series for production agentic applications with Foundry Agent Service. The first article emphasizes defining the business problem and success measures before selecting models, tools or orchestration.
It recommends deterministic code for operations that do not require reasoning and evaluates models against representative tasks, latency and cost constraints.
The guidance discusses prompt agents, hosted agents and the Copilot harness, explicitly identifying the harness as preview. Evaluation, security, context management and scaling are planned topics for later posts.
This is implementation guidance rather than a general-availability announcement for every capability discussed.
Partner briefing
- What it is
Microsoft published the opening article in a Foundry agent-engineering series.
- What’s changing
Guidance covers architecture choices, deterministic operations, success criteria and model evaluation.
- Why it matters
Business and technical measures are linked to production monitoring and demonstrating value.
- Who it affects
Developers and engineering teams building production agentic applications.