Microsoft Foundry adds five Claude agent features to Azure-hosted deployments
Original titleFrom single call to agents: five new Claude capabilities now available in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry now offers structured outputs, web search, web fetch, MCP connector, and tool search for Claude models on Azure-hosted deployments.
Prompts and completions remain within Azure for these deployments, while only usage metadata and safety-flagged content egress to Anthropic.
The features were previously available only on Hosted on Anthropic deployments, which required choosing between capability and data-handling commitments.
The post shows which agent scaffolding now runs on Azure-hosted Claude deployments, which matters for teams needing data residency without rebuilding search, fetch, or tool routing.
Source: Microsoft Foundry Blog · devblogs.microsoft.comPublished · added here