--- title: Hosted AI Agents Made Easy: Build, Test, Deploy | daily.dev description: A walkthrough of building, testing, and deploying a coded AI agent using GitHub Copilot CLI and Microsoft Foundry. The demo creates a social media campaign... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/hosted-ai-agents-made-easy-build-test-deploy-0fktzylhx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Hosted AI Agents Made Easy: Build, Test, Deploy | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of building, testing, and deploying a coded AI agent using GitHub Copilot CLI and Microsoft Foundry. The demo creates a social media campaign... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/hosted-ai-agents-made-easy-build-test-deploy-0fktzylhx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0FKtzylHx.png og:image:alt: Hosted AI Agents Made Easy: Build, Test, Deploy og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Hosted AI Agents Made Easy: Build, Test, Deploy **[Visual Studio Code](https://daily.dev/sources/vscode)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of building, testing, and deploying a coded AI agent using GitHub Copilot CLI and Microsoft Foundry. The demo creates a social media campaign assistant agent that uses a Foundry toolbox with web search and Microsoft Learn MCP server tools, powered by a GPT-5 model. 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