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The Foundry Tools is a central hub for discovering tools to extend your AI agents
The Foundry Tools enables you to:
- Browse and use Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool servers created by Microsoft and non-Microsoft services, for various use cases such as data integration, productivity and more.
- Streamline integration between tool configuration and adding to an agent or workflow.
- Filter, search, and sort by your desired outcome
Considerations for using non-Microsoft services and servers
Your use of connected non-Microsoft services and servers ("non-Microsoft services") is subject to the terms between you and the service provider. Non-Microsoft services are non-Microsoft products under your agreement governing use of Microsoft online services. When you connect to non-Microsoft services, some of your data (such as prompt content) is passed to the non-Microsoft services, or your application might receive data from the non-Microsoft Services. You're responsible for your use of non-Microsoft services and data, along with any charges associated with that use.
The non-Microsoft services, including remote MCP servers, that you decide to use with the MCP tool described in this article were created by third parties, not Microsoft. Microsoft hasn't tested or verified these servers. Microsoft has no responsibility to you or others in relation to your use of any non-Microsoft services.
We recommend that you carefully review and track the MCP servers you add to Foundry Agent Service. We also recommend that you rely on servers hosted by trusted service providers themselves rather than proxies.
The MCP tool allows you to pass custom headers, such as authentication keys or schemas, that a remote MCP server might need. We recommend that you review all data that's shared with Non-Microsoft services, including remote MCP servers, and that you log the data for auditing purposes. Be cognizant of non-Microsoft practices for retention and location of data.
Foundry Tools and private tools catalog
Foundry provides both Foundry Tools and private tools catalogs. Foundry Tools is an enterprise-ready curated list of MCP servers available to all Foundry developers for building AI agents. You can also build a private tools catalog with tools that appear only in your organization by creating a private tools catalog.
Find the right tools from Foundry Tools
Tool types
There are three types of MCP tool servers in Foundry Tools:
Remote MCP server: The MCP server publisher has already hosted the server and provided a static or dynamic MCP server endpoint. Foundry developers need to follow the configuration guidance to provide the appropriate information to finish the setup.
Local MCP server: The MCP server publisher doesn't host the server and require Foundry developers to self-host and bring the self-hosted remote MCP server endpoint back to Foundry to use it with AI agents. For information about self-hosting a local MCP server here, see the custom MCP Server documentation
Custom: These MCP servers are converted from Azure Logic App Connectors. Foundry developers need additional configuration to convert to remote MCP servers.
Filter and search
Foundry Tools provides the following filters to help you find the right tools for your agents:
| Filter | Description |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Microsoft and Partner: non-Microsoft service |
| Category | Categorize tools by different industries and use cases, such as databases, analytics, web, and more |
| Registry | Public: This is the registry for all public remote MCP servers and local MCP servers in the catalog Logic app connectors: This is the registry for all Azure Logic App Connectors that need to be converted to remote MCP servers to use a private tools catalog you built. You can have multiple private tools catalogs. |
| Supported Authentication | You can also filter by the authentication method an MCP server supports. For more information see Authentication methods. |
When you select a specific tool you are interested, you can see the details for setting it up.
Foundry Tools
In your tools list you can find the list of tools you have configured, along with details such as MCP server endpoints, and authentication information. You can also delete or add your tools to existing agents. If you delete a tool, affect agents currently using them.
To see a full list of available tools, you can use the Agent playground. You can view recently used tools, and add new ones.
Foundry Tools contains three sections:
Configured: Configured tools are ready to use with your configured authentication, configuration or setup. You can also find built-in tools:
Tool Description Azure AI Search Use an existing Azure AI Search index to ground agents with data in the index, and chat with your data. Browser Automation (preview) Perform real-world browser tasks through natural language prompts. Code Interpreter Enable agents to write and run Python code in a sandboxed execution environment. Computer Use (preview) Specialized AI tool that uses a specialized model that can perform tasks by interacting with computer systems and applications through their user interfaces File Search Augment agents with knowledge from outside its model, such as proprietary product information or documents provided by your users. Grounding with Bing tools Enable your agent to use Grounding with Bing Search to access and return information from the internet. Image Generation (preview) Enables image generation as part of conversations and multi-step workflows Microsoft Fabric (preview) Integrate your agent with the Microsoft Fabric data agent to unlock powerful data analysis capabilities. SharePoint (preview) Integrate your agents with the Microsoft SharePoint to chat with your private documents securely. Web Search (preview) Enables models to retrieve and ground responses with real-time information from the public web before generating output. Catalog: Available from the public or organizational Foundry Tool Catalog, including remote and local MCP servers and Azure Logic Apps connectors, which may require setup before use.
Custom: These allow you to bring your own APIs using remote MCP server endpoints, A2A endpoints, OpenAPI 3.0 specs, or functions.
Tool Description Model Context Protocol (preview) Give the agent access to tools hosted on an existing MCP endpoint OpenAPI 3.0 Specified tool Connect your Foundry agents to external APIs using functions with an OpenAPI 3.0 specification. Agen2Agent tool (preview) Connect your Foundry agents to another A2A compatible agents