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Almost a year ago, I wrote a blog post on how you could use GitHub Models with Semantic Kernel applications for dev and test purposes. Now that the Microsoft Agent Framework is available, I thought I’d create an updated article on how you can use GitHub Models with the new framework, so that you don’t have to provision Azure Foundry and pay for using LLM usage to build agents. What is the Microsoft Agent Framework? It’s an open-source kit for building AI Agents and agentic workflows in Python and C#. The Agent Framework is an extension of both Semantic Kernel and AutoGen projects, and it provides a unified approach for building agents. Both the Semantic Kernel and AutoGen teams are working together to build the Microsoft Agent Framework. ...

I run various Container Apps as part of my personal health project. I want this project to be as low maintenance as possible, so I decided to take a look at Azure SRE Agent to see how it could help me reduce the operational toil required to operate my side project. As I’m writing this blog post (8th January 2026), Azure SRE Agent is still in Preview. There’s no mechanism to provision SRE Agents using Bicep, or any IaC for that matter, and I’m expecting to see things break or not quite work as nicely as they should, so consider everything that I’m writing here experimental, and expect that features will change as time goes by. ...

It’s finally 2026! The New Year is upon us, and like many of you, I have a bunch of personal and professional goals I’d like to achieve this year. New Years resolutions have always been a bit of a fad to me. I’ve seen a lot of people start with good intentions and set some ambitious goals, only to drop off into old habits, and that’s just from looking in the mirror. ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog post on how you can create Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers using C#. Using a basic API, I was able to create a MCP server that allowed me to call Australian Football League (AFL) data and supply that as context to LLMs so I can ask it question about AFL results, teams, stats etc. using that API. That blog post talked about how we can use MCP servers that run locally on our machines using stdio transport. In this article, I’ll talk about how we can use Server-Sent Events (SSE) transport to build remote MCP servers that we can host on Azure Container Apps. ...

Determining how Azure AI Foundry Agents makes decisions is important for troubleshooting and debugging purposes. However, it can get a little complicated when our agents perform complex workflows. Our agents could perform numerous executions, making it difficult to track decisions made by all or them, or some agents may invoke tools, that invoke other tools, which invoke more tools! (And so on and so forth). Tracing our agents helps us see the inputs and outputs involved in a particular agent run, as well as the order in which those agents were invoked. In this blog post, I’ll talk about how tracing agents works, how we can do some simple tracing using the Azure AI Foundry Agents playground, and how we can implement tracing in our pro-code agents using OpenTelemetry. ...