Microsoft Foundry Local

Expert knowledge for Microsoft Foundry Local (aka Azure AI Foundry Local) development including best practices, decision making, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when compiling HF models with Olive, using Foundry Local CLI, embeddings/chat APIs, tools, or migrating SDKs, and other Microsoft Foundry Local related development tasks. Not for Azure Local (use azure-local), Microsoft Foundry (use microsoft-foundry), Microsoft Foundry Classic (use microsoft-foundry-classic), Content Safety in Foundry Control Plane (use azure-content-safety).

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AuthorMicrosoftDocs

Version1.0.0

Last updatedAug 14, 2026

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Microsoft Foundry Local Expert knowledge for Microsoft Foundry Local (aka Azure AI Foundry Local) development including best practices, decision making, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when compiling HF models with Olive, using Foundry Local CLI, embeddings/chat APIs, tools, or migrating SDKs, and other Microsoft Foundry Local related development tasks. Not for Azure Local (use azure-local), Microsoft Foundry (use microsoft-foundry), Microsoft Foundry Classic (use microsoft-foundry-classic), Content Safety in Foundry Control Plane (use azure-content-safety).

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name: microsoft-foundry-local
version: 1.0.0
description: Expert knowledge for Microsoft Foundry Local (aka Azure AI Foundry Local) development including best practices, decision making, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when compiling HF models with Olive, using Foundry Local CLI, embeddings/chat APIs, tools, or migrating SDKs, and other Microsoft Foundry Local related development tasks. Not for Azure Local (use azure-local), Microsoft Foundry (use microsoft-foundry), Microsoft Foundry Classic (use microsoft-foundry-classic), Content Safety in Foundry Control Plane (use azure-content-safety).