Congratulations! You have completed the full Foundry Local Workshop.
You have gone from installing the CLI to building chat applications, RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems, speech-to-text transcription, compiling your own custom models, enabling tool calling, and wiring up a live web UI for your multi-agent application. All of it running entirely on your device.
| Part | What You Built |
|---|---|
| 1 | Installed Foundry Local, explored models via the CLI |
| 2 | Mastered the Foundry Local SDK API for service, catalogue, cache, and model management |
| 3 | Connected from Python, JavaScript, and C# using the SDK with OpenAI |
| 4 | Built a RAG pipeline with local knowledge retrieval |
| 5 | Created AI agents with personas and structured output |
| 6 | Orchestrated multi-agent pipelines with feedback loops |
| 7 | Explored a production capstone application, the Zava Creative Writer |
| 8 | Built evaluation-led development workflows for agents |
| 9 | Transcribed audio with Whisper, speech-to-text on-device |
| 10 | Compiled and ran a custom Hugging Face model with ONNX Runtime GenAI |
| 11 | Enabled local models to call external functions with tool calling |
| 12 | Built a browser-based UI for the Zava Creative Writer with real-time streaming |
- Combine tool calling with agents to build autonomous workflows
- Query a local database or call internal REST APIs from your tools
- Try different models (
phi-4-mini,deepseek-r1-7b) to compare quality and speed - Add authentication or rate limiting to your Zava Writer web server
- Create your own multi-agent application for a domain you care about
- Deploy to the cloud by swapping Foundry Local for Azure AI Foundry, same code, different endpoint
| Resource | Link |
|---|---|
| Foundry Local website | foundrylocal.ai |
| Model catalogue | foundrylocal.ai/models |
| Foundry Local GitHub | github.com/microsoft/foundry-local |
| Getting started guide | Microsoft Learn: Foundry Local |
| Foundry Local SDK Reference | Microsoft Learn: SDK Reference |
| Microsoft Agent Framework | Microsoft Learn: Agent Framework |
| OpenAI Whisper | github.com/openai/whisper |
| ONNX Runtime GenAI | github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime-genai |
Go back to the workshop overview to review what you have covered and explore the further reading resources.
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