Tags: AI Agent

Orchestrate a multi-agent solution using the Microsoft Agent Framework

The Microsoft Agent Framework is an open-sourced SDK which combines the Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single, highly innovative set of AI capabilities into a single library.  AI features like: Unified model connectivity and chat clients for OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, and other leading LLM providers. Multi-agent orchestration, allowing specialized AI agents to […]

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Develop an AI agent with Microsoft Agent Framework

You may have noticed that in my previous articles I used Azure AI Projects client library for Python – version 2.5.0 library.  Those articles illustrate how to build AI Agents, MCP Tools, and infer instructions using an LLM. Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent Integrate MCP Tools with AI Agents – Remote MCP server […]

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Build knowledge-enhanced AI agents with Foundry IQ – RAG

I have built a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution using the Azure AI Search SDK and Azure OpenAI SDK. There is a lot to know about not only coding, configuring, and managing those components, but how they must be tuned, fed, and optimized are aspects which we are still in a state of learning and […]

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Integrate MCP Tools with AI Agents – Local MCP server

I recently wrote this article Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent which illustrates how to configure tools and an AI Agent to call those tools.  In that article there was no Model Context Protocol (MCP) capability utilized.  MCP provides the following benefits when compared to integrating custom tools directly from code. Dynamic tool discovery […]

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Integrate MCP Tools with AI Agents – Remote MCP server

I recently wrote this article Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent which illustrates how to configure tools and an AI Agent to call those tools.  In that article there was no Model Context Protocol (MCP) capability utilized.  MCP provides the following benefits when compared to integrating custom tools directly from code. Dynamic tool discovery […]

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Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent

Before learning what I discovered while integrating tools into an AI Agent, I was a bit perplexed regarding how the LLM was able to determine which tool to use and even which tools are available for use.  Well, how it works is not a mystery, it is clearly described in the code.  In this post […]

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