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Pamela Fox shows how to build a browser-using QA agent by combining Pydantic AI with Playwright, backed by Microsoft Foundry models. The post covers keyless Entra authentication, safe browsing constraints, and OpenTelemetry tracing with optional export to Azure Application Insights.

Pamela Fox walks through practical MCP server designs for giving coding agents safe access to a PostgreSQL database, from free-form SQL to fully templated tools. She highlights where flexibility creates risk, and shows concrete guardrails like schema discovery patterns, read-only enforcement, and confirmation flows for destructive actions.

Pamela Fox shares the materials from the “Microsoft IQ Deep Dive with Python” livestream series, showing how to ground AI apps and agents using Web IQ, Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ via MCP endpoints, plus code samples, slides, and write-ups for building and deploying Python agents.

Pamela Fox announces MCP Live, a free livestream focused on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), including updates from MCP maintainers and teams at Microsoft and GitHub, plus sessions on building MCP servers in VS Code and upcoming MCP authorization work.

Pamela Fox shows how to build an MCP server that returns more than plain text: image thumbnails as binary tool results and an interactive MCP app (a carousel) rendered inside VS Code, so GitHub Copilot can search, inspect, and present curated image results.

Pamela Fox announces a free 3-part livestream series that teaches developers how to use Microsoft IQ (Foundry IQ, Work IQ, and Fabric IQ) from Python to ground AI agents in organizational knowledge, workplace context, and structured data, with runnable code shared in an open-source repo.

Pamela Fox presents a practical design discussion on building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for PostgreSQL, focusing on how tool interfaces affect LLM query accuracy and safety. She compares free-form SQL vs typed tools, and walks through common failure modes like SQL injection, risky mutations, and expensive queries.

Pamela Fox shares the recordings, slides, and sample repos from a three-part livestream series on deploying and hosting Python AI agents on Microsoft Foundry, including Agent Framework and LangChain/LangGraph builds plus quality, safety, and evaluation practices.