You can now run an AI agent on your local machine and send it messages—all from azd, no portal required. The azure.ai.agents extension adds two commands, azd ai agent run starts your agent locally with automatic dependency detection and installation.azd ai agent invoke sends a message to a running agent—whether it's local or deployed in Azure AI Foundry.

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The Azure Developer CLI (azd) now supports running and testing AI agents locally via two new commands in the azure.ai.agents extension (v0.1.14-preview). `azd ai agent run` starts an agent locally with automatic dependency detection for Python, Node.js, and other project types. `azd ai agent invoke` sends messages to either a local or remote Azure AI Foundry agent endpoint. Session identifiers persist across invocations for multi-turn conversations, keeping the entire development loop in the terminal without needing to switch to a cloud portal.

Azure Developer CLI (azd): Run and test AI agents locally with azd