Official Technical Resources: Microsoft (page 1)
Official Technical Resources · Microsoft. Azure AI, research and product technical resources. This source has 312 entries admitted under this category's review policy, listed across 21 pages; each links directly to the original.
Authority tiers in this category: A1–A2.
Agent hooks
Add fail-closed governance and runtime controls to agents with the Agent Hooks interception contract.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: AI Agent · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Background agents
Delegate concurrent work to background agents and manage task creation, completion, result retrieval, continuation, and cleanup.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: AI Agent · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Agent Background Responses
Learn how to handle long-running operations with background responses in Agent Framework
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: AI Agent · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
CodeAct
Learn what CodeAct is and when to use it with Agent Framework.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: AI Agent · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Declarative Agents
Learn how to define agents declaratively using configuration files in Agent Framework.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: AI Agent · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Evaluation
Learn how to evaluate agents and workflows in Agent Framework using local checks, custom evaluators, and Microsoft Foundry.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Model Evaluation and Benchmarks · AI Agent
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Agent looping
Re-invoke agents safely with bounded loops, completion evaluators, AI judges, progress feedback, and approval escape behavior.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: AI Agent · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Observability
Learn how to use observability with Agent Framework
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: LLM Observability and Tracing · AI Agent
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Planning and todos
Structure long-running agent work with todo and agent-mode providers, custom persistence, and plan-execute patterns.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: AI Agent · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
RAG
Learn how to use Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Agent Framework
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) · AI Agent
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Agent Security with FIDES
Defend Agent Framework agents against prompt injection and data exfiltration with FIDES (Flow Integrity Deterministic Enforcement System), an information-flow control middleware for tracking content trust and confidentiality.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: AI Agent · Prompt Injection · AI Guardrails
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Agent Skills
Learn how to extend agent capabilities with Agent Skills - portable packages of instructions, scripts, and resources that agents discover and load on demand.
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: AI Agent · Agent Frameworks
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Producing Structured Outputs with Agents
Learn how to use structured outputs with an agent
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Structured Outputs · AI Agent
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Controlling tool availability
How to progressively expose tools, gate tool calls, and enforce ordering within an agent run (Python).
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Tool Calling · AI Agent
Link last checked: 2026-09-24
Using function tools with an agent
Learn how to use function tools with an agent
Evidence use: For understanding, implementation, selection, reliability, security or migration decisions.
Limitations: Directly evidences only Microsoft's own implementation and claims. Recheck preview features and product lifecycle before use.
Related concepts: Tool Calling · AI Agent
Link last checked: 2026-09-24