--- title: "Microsoft Foundry Adds Runtime, Tooling, and Governance for Production Agents" url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-foundry-adds-runtime-tooling-and-governance-for-production-agents-twopzur0m source_url: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/microsoft-foundry-agents type: article source: "InfoQ" published: 2026-06-09T08:04:28.512Z updated: 2026-08-24T06:53:53.501Z tags: ["ai-agents", "azure", "mcp", "rag"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: 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. # Microsoft Foundry Adds Runtime, Tooling, and Governance for Production Agents **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft announced significant updates to Microsoft Foundry at Build 2026, positioning it as a production-grade platform for AI agents. Key additions include hosted agent sandboxes with stateful sessions and scheduled routines, Toolboxes for centralized tool and MCP endpoint management, procedural memory showing 7-14% task success rate improvements, and Foundry IQ as a unified knowledge retrieval layer. The model catalog gains four first-party MAI models and Fireworks AI integration. Observability and tracing now work across frameworks like LangChain and Semantic Kernel without requiring stack changes. Direct publishing to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot is planned for general availability in June 2026, and governance features include encryption, permission sync, and sensitivity label controls. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [What's New in Microsoft Foundry](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-microsoft-foundry-izt6m5wlm) · DevBlogs · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#azure](https://daily.dev/tags/azure), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp), [#rag](https://daily.dev/tags/rag) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-foundry-adds-runtime-tooling-and-governance-for-production-agents-twopzur0m)