Start with an outcome
ReadinessChecking skills, extensions, tools and Azure sign-in…
Checking skills, extensions, tools and Azure sign-in…
Install the Foundry Agentic Loop plugin
One plugin brings the skills, this panel and the SDD workflow. The microsoft-foundry skill comes with the Azure skills plugin.
copilot plugin install foundry-agentic-loop@awesome-copilot
copilot plugin install azure@awesome-copilotCheck command-line tools
Foundry DevPack sets up azd and the Foundry extensions. If Azure CLI is still missing, the guide installs it separately.
Sign in to Azure
Installs and sign-in happen with your approval in Chat. Check again after completing them.
Foundry project
Copilot builds in this project. Its resource group brings the rest of your solution together.
Start with new resources
Foundry quickstart
A focused starting point for development.
AI Landing Zone
Enterprise networking, identity and governance for production.
Discovery is read-only. Creating resources requires approval in Chat.
No Foundry project selected. Rapid prototyping prompts are sent with the project you choose above.
Checking Work IQ…
Your prototype, step by step
Copilot builds in Chat. This tab tracks the milestones it records in your workspace.
Keep the loop going
Spec-driven development, phase by phase
Pick a prompt template on Start to launch the workflow. This tab follows it live: each phase, its agents, the evidence it writes and the gate it must pass.
Specify
EARS acceptance criteria, a frozen contract, workstreams and a deployment plan, checked by an independent reviewer.
Gate · you approve the spec and plan
Implement
azd provisions the Foundry project and a hosted checkpoint proves the integration before agents, tools and app are built in parallel.
Gate · provisioned, checkpoint proven, tests pass
Verify
Every acceptance criterion tested end to end, plus hosted invocations, traces and agent evaluations, with bounded fix loops.
Gate · criteria, evaluations and traces pass, or you decide
Deploy
azd up ships agents and apps with keyless auth and monitoring, then reruns the end-to-end tests against the deployed endpoints.
Gate · you approve before azd up
Activity log
Explore your solution
See what is deployed, then continue the loop: observe, evaluate, improve.
Your apps
Reading frontend URLs from workspace .env…
Foundry resources
Reuses the installed Foundry panel for configuration, deployment and interactive testing. Chat synchronizes your project; opening does not deploy anything.
Improve your agents
Optimize behavior, automate evaluations and investigate production insights. Each action starts a guided workflow in Chat for your project.
Foundry Agent Optimizer
Compare candidate instructions, skills, tools and models against a measured baseline. Preview support varies by agent type.
Automatic evaluations
Build a repeatable quality and safety check with representative data, evaluators and acceptance thresholds.
Agent Insights scan
Find recurring issues in recent traces, review the evidence and identify what to improve next. Available in preview.
Improve the loop itself
Analyze past runs, flight records and the lessons in docs/LOOP.md, then propose evidence-backed changes to the Foundry Agentic Loop skill and workflow.
Copilot confirms the agent and prerequisites in Chat. Billable runs, recurring execution and changes to deployed agents require approval.
This Copilot session
Azure spend · month to date
Actual resource-group charges reported by Azure, not just this project. Billing data can lag. Cost Management Reader access may be required.