<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Agents on BeyondElastic</title><link>https://beyond-elastic.com/tags/agents/</link><description>Recent content in Agents on BeyondElastic</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><copyright>© 2026 Alexander Ullah</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:42:58 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://beyond-elastic.com/tags/agents/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Native Voice Agents in Microsoft Foundry: When Speech and Agent Become One</title><link>https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/foundry-voice-agents/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:42:58 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/foundry-voice-agents/</guid><description>Intro # &amp;ldquo;Vita, set the scene to microscopy.</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/foundry-voice-agents/featured.png"/></item><item><title>Declarative Agents in Microsoft Foundry: Agents as Code, Deployed by GitHub Actions</title><link>https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/declarative-agents-foundry/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/declarative-agents-foundry/</guid><description>Intro # Here is a line I keep coming back to: the agent is code, not clicks.</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/declarative-agents-foundry/featured.png"/></item><item><title>Hosted Agents in Microsoft Foundry: Bring Your Own Code, Ship to Production</title><link>https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/hosted-agents/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/hosted-agents/</guid><description>Intro # Building an agent on your laptop is the easy part.</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/hosted-agents/featured.png"/></item><item><title>Microsoft Foundry V2: New Portal, Responses API, and Prompt Agents</title><link>https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/microsoft-foundry-v2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/microsoft-foundry-v2/</guid><description>Intro # The platform formerly known as Azure AI Foundry has quietly turned into something quite different over the course of this year: a new name, a new portal, and a genuinely new engine under the hood.</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/microsoft-foundry-v2/featured.png"/></item><item><title>Intro to Microsoft Agent Framework</title><link>https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/agent-framework/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:52:19 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/agent-framework/</guid><description>Intro # The Microsoft Agent Framework has been around for a while now and, with the 1.</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://beyond-elastic.com/posts/agent-framework/featured.png"/></item><item><title>Azure AI Foundry News &amp; 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