microsoft-foundry

# Microsoft Foundry Skill This skill helps developers work with Microsoft Foundry resources, covering model discovery and deployment, complete dev lifecycle of AI agent, evaluation workflows, and troubleshooting. ## Sub-Skills > **MANDATORY: Before executing ANY workflow, you MUST read the corresponding sub-skill document.** Do not call MCP tools for a workflow without reading its skill document. This applies even if you already know the MCP tool parameters — the skill document contains required workflow steps, pre-checks, and validation logic that must be followed. This rule applies on every new user message that triggers a different workflow, even if the skill is already loaded. This skill includes specialized sub-skills for specific workflows. **Use these instead of the main skill when they match your task:** | Sub-Skill | When to Use | Reference | |-----------|-------------|-----------| | **deploy** | Containerize, build, push to ACR, create/update/start/stop/clone agent deployments | [deploy](foundry-agent/deploy/deploy.md) | | **invoke** | Send messages to an agent, single or multi-turn conversations | [invoke](foundry-agent/invoke/invoke.md) | | **observe** | Evaluate agent quality, run batch evals, analyze failures, optimize prompts, improve agent instructions, compare versions, and set up CI/CD monitoring | [observe](foundry-agent/observe/observe.md) | | **trace** | Query traces, analyze latency/failures, correlate eval results to specific responses via App Insi...