Using Microsoft Agent Framework with Foundry managed memory

Microsoft Developer walks through Foundry Agent Service managed memory and how it integrates with Microsoft Agent Framework and LangGraph to build stateful agents that retain context across sessions, including per-user scoping, automatic extraction, and CRUD APIs for memory control.

Overview

Production agents need to remember things across sessions. This episode covers Memory in Foundry Agent Service: a managed, long-term memory layer intended to turn stateless LLM interactions into stateful, continuous agents.

Speakers mentioned in the episode description:

• Lewis Liu
• Amy Boyd

What “Foundry Memory” is for

Foundry managed memory is presented as a way for agents to persist information such as:

• User preferences
• Conversation context
• Task outcomes across sessions

The goal is to provide this persistence with zero infrastructure overhead, while still supporting enterprise governance.

Integration points

The episode description says memory is natively integrated with:

• Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF)
• LangGraph

Key capabilities called out

The description highlights several developer-facing features:

• Per-user memory scoping (store memory in a user-specific way)
• Automatic memory extraction (extract and save relevant information)
• CRUD APIs for memory
  • Create
  • Read
  • Update
  • Delete

These are positioned as giving developers control over memory behavior while keeping governance built in.

Video chapters (from description)

• 00:17 Introduction MAF - Microsoft Agent Framework and Foundry Memory
• 00:45 Why we need Foundry Memory
• 01:40 What's Foundry Memory
• 03:20 How Memory helps Agents - Use Cases
• 07:31 Foundry Memory Key concepts and Features
• 14:33 Foundry Memory - What's under development
• 16:55 Foundry Memory and MAF - Demo 1
• 20:25 Foundry Memory and MAF - Demo 2
• 24:24 Foundry Memory and MAF - Demo 3
• 30:50 Foundry Memory Public Preview and What's Next

Resources (from description)

• Foundry Toolkit for VS Code: https://aka.ms/foundrytk
• Microsoft Agent Framework on GitHub: https://aka.ms/AgentFramework
• AI Agents for Beginners: https://aka.ms/ai-agents-beginners
• Blog post: https://aka.ms/DeployingAgents-blog
• MAF 1.0 Announcement: https://aka.ms/AgentFramework1.0-blog

Links (from description)

• Jorge Arteiro: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgearteiro
• Amy Boyd: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amykatenicho/
• Lewis Liu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewisxl/
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