🧪 Foundry MCP Playground

Welcome to Foundry MCP Playground, your streamlined dev environment for rapidly prototyping with MCP Server for Azure AI Foundry, including the ability to explore and use state-of-the-art AI models from Azure AI Foundry Catalog and Azure AI Foundry Labs, to manage and query knowledge using Azure AI Search and to evaluate text and agent responses with Observability features in Azure AI Foundry — all without the hassels of getting set up with these resources.

By using this template, you’ll be up and running with GitHub Copilot and connected to powerful backend tools in just one click.

• MCP Server for Azure AI Foundry: server repo
• Foundry MCP Playground: template repo (this)

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🚀 One-Click Setup

Start building instantly:

Click this if you like to create your new repository from this template

Click this if you like to start clean using current repository in GitHub Codespaces

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🧠 What’s Inside?

Foundry MCP Playground gives you everything you need to prototype AI-based solutions inside GitHub Copilot.

When you open this workspace, it will automatically start the MCP server for Azure AI Foundry:

• MCP Server for Azure AI Foundry (experimental) – exposes tools to interact with Azure AI Foundry

This server is automatically started inside a devcontainer and communicate via stdio with GitHub Copilot.

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🧰 Available Tools in GitHub Copilot

When GitHub Copilot is running in this environment, it will be equipped with all the tools — no extra config needed. See MCP Server for Azure AI Foundry (experimental) for more details.:

These tools are automatically discovered by Copilot and can be used in natural language prompts while coding.

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💡 Getting Started

1. Use this template to create your own repository. If you already did that, you can skip to the next step.
2. Open in Codespaces or VS Code (with devcontainer support).
   1. If you use VS Code with devcontainer, you’ll need Docker engine running locally.