In this end-to-end developer walkthrough, David Rousset shows how to build a Foundry Hosted Agent running inside Microsoft 365 Copilot using a fun Blender 3D scenario.

You’ll see the full workflow:
- using the VS Code Foundry extension and the Hotel Python template
- testing the agent in the local Playground
- debugging the experience locally
- switching to the local Blender agent to validate the scenario
- deploying the agent
- testing it in the remote Playground in VS Code
- checking service logs and telemetry
- validating everything in the Foundry portal
- exploring observability with Application Insights

This video is a full build → test → deploy → monitor journey, aimed at developers who want a practical example of how Hosted Agents work in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Sample code:
https://github.com/davrous/blenderagent

Hosted Agents: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/agents/concepts/hosted-agents
VS Code Foundry Extension: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/how-to/develop/get-started-projects-vs-code
Publish agents to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Teams: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/agents/how-to/publish-copilot

Microsoft Developer

A walkthrough of building a Blender-powered AI agent hosted in Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and exposed through Microsoft 365 Copilot. The demo shows running Blender in headless mode inside a Docker container, wrapping it as a Python agent using tools adapted from Blender MCP, and deploying it to the Foundry hosted agent service. The workflow covers local debugging in VS Code with the AI Toolkit extension, deploying to Foundry with configurable CPU/memory resources, storing rendered outputs in Azure Blob Storage, and monitoring agent behavior via Azure Monitor telemetry including tool call frequency and token consumption. The end result lets users generate and iterate on 3D scenes through natural language in M365 Copilot, then download the resulting Blender files for further editing.

Build, Debug, and Deploy a Blender Hosted Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot