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Microsoft Agent Framework Foundry Starter Pack Net

This provides a starter template to build an agentic AI app using Microsoft Agent Framework and Microsoft Foundry with Aspire

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Microsoft Agent Framework and Foundry Starter Pack in .NET

This is a starter template to build a .NET-based agentic AI app using Microsoft Agent Framework and Microsoft Foundry with Aspire.

Intro video

What is this starter pack for?

Building AI agents is getting easier. Deploying them as part of a real application, with multiple services, persistent state, and production infrastructure, is where things get complicated. But where should we start building architecture to deploy them onto the cloud in a cloud-native way?

This starter pack is where you should start from. It's an opinionated way to build an AI agent system using Microsoft Agent Framework and Microsoft Foundry with Aspire. If you're unsure where to start, this starter pack will guide you walk through.

Features

Architecture

This stater template provides the following features:

Blazor frontend for chat UI
ASP.NET backend with Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents for agent hosting
To-do list management MCP server for tooling support to agent
Aspire for cloud-native app orchestration

Prerequisites

Azure subscription (free)
.NET 10 SDK or higher
Visual Studio 2026 or VS Code + C# Dev Kit
Docker Desktop or equivalent
Azure Developer CLI
Azure CLI
Aspire CLI

Quickstart

This starter pack has a three-step deployment process, which mimicks the real-world scenario. MCP servers, agents and apps are usually deployed separately.

Deploy an MCP server.
Deploy a hosted agent to Microsoft Foundry.
Deploy apps via Aspire.

Get repository root

Get the repository root.

# bash/zsh
REPOSITORY_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)

# PowerShell
$REPOSITORY_ROOT = git rev-parse --show-toplevel

Login to Azure

Deploy To-do MCP server

Navigate to the resources-mcp directory.
```
cd $REPOSITORY_ROOT/resources-mcp
```
Deploy a To-do MCP server.
```
azd up
```
While provisioning, you might be asked to enter environment name, Azure subscription and location.
NOTE: You may have to set the environment variable, AZURE_TENANT_ID.
```
# bash/zsh
AZURE_TENANT_ID=$(az account show --query "tenantId" -o tsv)
```
```
# PowerShell
$env:AZURE_TENANT_ID = az account show --query "tenantId" -o tsv
```

Deploy Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents

Navigate to the resources-foundry directory.
```
cd $REPOSITORY_ROOT/resources-foundry
```
Deploy a hosted agent to Microsoft Foundry.
```
azd up
```
While provisioning, you might be asked to enter environment name, Azure subscription and location.
NOTE: You may have to set the environment variable, AZURE_TENANT_ID.
```
# bash/zsh
AZURE_TENANT_ID=$(az account show --query "tenantId" -o tsv)
```
```
# PowerShell
$env:AZURE_TENANT_ID = az account show --query "tenantId" -o tsv
```

Deploy apps to Azure

Make sure you're at the repository root.
```
cd $REPOSITORY_ROOT
```
Deploy the app.
```
azd up
```
While provisioning, you might be asked to enter environment name, Azure subscription and location.

Run apps locally

Make sure you're at the repository root.
```
cd $REPOSITORY_ROOT
```

Run Aspire.

aspire run --project ./src/MafStarterPack.AppHost