microsoft-foundry
microsoft-foundry is an agent skill published by microsoft, listed under training models. It lives in the microsoft/skills repository, which has 3,148 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-10-24.
Build, deploy, and manage Microsoft Foundry agents, models, and resources end-to-end, including fine-tuning, optimization, and evaluation. Use for creating, updating, and managing agents, models, and resources within Foundry projects, with support for RBAC and permissions.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads microsoft/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add microsoft/skills
What it connects to
Unverified means a mention in the skill’s own description, not a citation. A wrong claim here costs nothing to correct and nothing to trust yet.
Maintenance
Build, deploy, evaluate, optimize, fine-tune, and manage Microsoft Foundry agents, models, and resources end to end. USE FOR: foundry, azd ai agent, azd provision/deploy, hosted agent scaffold/develop/run/deploy/troubleshoot, prompt agent, managed harness agent, Copilot harness, voice agent, create/update/invoke/evaluate agent, add tool to agent, agent insights, batch/continuous eval, continuous monitoring, agent CI/CD, optimize/improve prompt, optimize agent instructions, Agent Optimizer, dataset curation from traces, deploy model, model fine-tuning (SFT/DPO/RFT), Foundry project, RBAC, role assignment, permissions, quota, capacity, region, deployment failure, AI Services, create Foundry resource, knowledge index, customize deployment, onboard, availability, training-data, grader, distillation, large file upload. DO NOT USE FOR: Azure Functions, App Service, general Azure deploy (use azure-deploy), general Azure prep (use azure-prepare).
microsoft-foundry compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft-foundry (this page) | microsoft | Build, deploy, evaluate, optimize, fine-tune, and manage Microsoft Foundry agents, models, and resources end… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
| finetuning(same repository) | microsoft | Fine-tune models on Microsoft Foundry using SFT (supervised), DPO (preference), or RFT (reinforcement with gr… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
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| agent-platform-tuning | Agent Platform Model Tuning. Use when you need to fine-tune open models or Gemini models using Agent Platform… | 21,580 | 2026-10-25 | |
| agent-platform-tuning-management | Manages GenAI tuning jobs in Agent Platform. Use this to list, get, or cancel ongoing model tuning jobs. Don'… | 21,580 | 2026-10-25 | |
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| hf-cloud-sagemaker-deployment-planner | huggingface | Plan and coordinate the deployment of a model to Amazon SageMaker AI. Use this skill whenever the user wants… | 11,213 | 2026-10-23 |
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Common questions about microsoft-foundry
- What does microsoft-foundry do?
- Build, deploy, and manage Microsoft Foundry agents, models, and resources end-to-end, including fine-tuning, optimization, and evaluation. Use for creating, updating, and managing agents, models, and resources within Foundry projects, with support for RBAC and permissions.
- How do I install microsoft-foundry?
- Run npx skills add microsoft/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes microsoft-foundry?
- microsoft.
- Is microsoft-foundry maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 3,148 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-25. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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