agent-framework-azure-ai-py

Python SDK for building persistent agents on Azure AI Foundry. Supports function tools, hosted tools (code interpreter, file search, Bing web search), MCP server integration, conversation threads, and streaming responses. Uses AzureAIAgentsProvider to create and manage agents backed by the Azure AI Agent Service. Managing agent lifecycle, thread persistence, and tool dispatch manually against the Azure AI REST API requires hundreds of lines of boilerplate that this SDK reduces to a handful of async context managers.