Zero to Production AI Agents

Azure AI Foundry from first principles to multi-agent: the platform, function tools in ASP.NET Core, a Flutter client, security, MCP and handoff.

2 parts · about 25 minutes end to end · updated August 5, 2026

Most agent tutorials start with an empty folder. Real work starts with an app that already has customers, roles, an API and a database. This series takes one running food delivery platform and adds AI agents to it, in order: what Foundry actually is and when you need it, the business case, the project setup, the function tools that wrap existing business APIs, the JWT and role model that decides what an agent may touch, the mobile client, everything that goes wrong once the traffic is real, and finally MCP and multi-agent handoff for when one agent is no longer enough.

Read it in order

  1. 1
    What Is Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI Foundry)? The Services, and When You Actually Need Them

    A plain tour of Microsoft Foundry for developers: the resource, projects, models, agents, tools, and when Azure OpenAI on its own is enough.

    July 20, 2026 · 12 min read

  2. 2
    From Search Box to AI Agent: Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI Foundry) for a Food Delivery App

    The business case for an AI agent on an app that already exists, what an agent really is, and the architecture that keeps it inside its lane.

    August 5, 2026 · 14 min read

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