--- title: Introducing Toolboxes in Foundry | daily.dev description: Microsoft has launched the public preview of 'toolboxes' in Azure AI foundry, a feature that centralizes tool management for AI agents. Instead of each agent... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-toolboxes-in-foundry-lcwb5gnuf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing Toolboxes in Foundry | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft has launched the public preview of 'toolboxes' in Azure AI foundry, a feature that centralizes tool management for AI agents. Instead of each agent... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-toolboxes-in-foundry-lcwb5gnuf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lcWb5GnuF.png og:image:alt: Introducing Toolboxes in Foundry 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. # Introducing Toolboxes in Foundry **[DevBlogs](https://daily.dev/sources/devblogs)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft has launched the public preview of 'toolboxes' in Azure AI foundry, a feature that centralizes tool management for AI agents. Instead of each agent wiring its own tools with separate authentication and credentials, teams can define a named bundle of tools once in foundry, configure authentication centrally, and expose everything through a single MCP-compatible endpoint. Any agent runtime that supports MCP can consume the toolbox, including custom agents built with LangGraph or Microsoft Agent Framework, and coding agents like GitHub copilot. The public preview covers the 'build' and 'consume' pillars, with 'discover' and 'govern' features coming later. A step-by-step Python example shows how to create a toolbox with web search, Azure AI Search, and a GitHub MCP server, then attach it to an agent. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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