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How Microsoft Ships AI Agents at Enterprise Scale: Breaking a Production Agent into 5 Layers

Retrieval becomes a sub-agent that plans and retries; evaluation upgrades from "does it run" to "did it do it right"
1From Prototype to Production

The demo that ran fine falls apart the moment it ships

On the Microsoft Foundry platform, more than 80,000 enterprises are already building and running AI agents; Microsoft's own Microsoft 365 Copilot runs on the same platform, serving over 20 million users.

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