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This lesson teaches how to connect to a remote MCP server and decorate the tools it exposes with your own local behavior before an agent uses them.
List a remote MCP server's tools, then wrap each FuncTool with a logging decorator via embedding plus one Call override — MCP tools compose like any tool.FuncTool.
This lesson teaches how a Foundry agent borrows tools from a remote MCP server and calls them as if they were local functions.
Connect a Foundry agent to Microsoft Learn's public MCP endpoint over streamable HTTP, list its tools, and hand the whole slice to the agent as proxied tools.
How to borrow tools from a remote Model Context Protocol server and hand them to a Foundry agent as ordinary tools.
Connect to Microsoft Learn's public MCP server with mcptool.Connect and ListTools, then hand the borrowed tools to a Foundry agent as ordinary agent.Config.Tools.
How to publish an agent as a discoverable tool on a Model Context Protocol server so any MCP client can invoke it.
Wrap an agent with agenttool.New then register it with mcptool.AddTool to serve it over MCP on stdio, so any MCP client can discover and invoke it.
Borrowing tools from an external MCP server instead of writing them yourself.
Connecting a Microsoft Agent Framework agent to an external Model Context Protocol server via MCPStdioTool, entered with async with, so its remote tools merge into tools=[...].
All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse all posts or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.