--- title: Get Started with Foundry Toolkit for VS Code | daily.dev description: A walkthrough of building an AI agent using the Microsoft Foundry Toolkit VS Code extension. The workflow covers using GitHub Copilot to recommend and deploy... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/get-started-with-foundry-toolkit-for-vs-code-g1shza8vp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Get Started with Foundry Toolkit for VS Code | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of building an AI agent using the Microsoft Foundry Toolkit VS Code extension. 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The workflow covers using GitHub Copilot to recommend and deploy Azure Foundry models, generating agent code, adding tracing for debugging, setting up structured evaluations with built-in evaluators and sample data, and finally deploying the agent to Microsoft Foundry as a hosted service. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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