run-agent

A tutorial for creating and running an AI agent with Microsoft Agent Framework, using Azure OpenAI or another supported AI service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a basic agent, connect it to an AI model, configure access, and run it from a .NET application.
Why use it?
It explains the setup and code needed to turn an AI service into a working agent.

Agent for Codex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/managedcode/dotpilot/run-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/managedcode/dotPilot

Made for: Codex.

Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,081 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00012 $0.02081
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01040
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00416
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00208

Measured yesterday against content hash 5ba32b7af1a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

run-agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to run-agent — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.codex/skills/dotnet-microsoft-agent-framework/references/official-docs/tutorials/agents/run-agent.md · 264 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 264 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create and run an agent with Agent Framework

::: zone pivot="programming-language-csharp"

This tutorial shows you how to create and run an agent with Agent Framework, based on the Azure OpenAI Chat Completion service.

[!IMPORTANT] Agent Framework supports many different types of agents. This tutorial uses an agent based on a Chat Completion service, but all other agent types are run in the same way. For more information on other agent types and how to construct them, see the Agent Framework user guide.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have the following prerequisites:

[!NOTE] Microsoft Agent Framework is supported with all actively supported versions of .NET. For the purposes of this sample, we recommend the .NET 8 SDK or a later version.

[!IMPORTANT] This tutorial uses Azure OpenAI for the Chat Completion service, but you can use any inference service that provides a xref:Microsoft.Extensions.AI.IChatClient implementation.

Install NuGet packages

To use Microsoft Agent Framework with Azure OpenAI, you need to install the following NuGet packages:

dotnet add package Azure.AI.OpenAI --prerelease
dotnet add package Azure.Identity
dotnet add package Microsoft.Agents.AI.OpenAI --prerelease

Create the agent

  • First, create a client for Azure OpenAI by providing the Azure OpenAI endpoint and using the same login as you used when authenticating with the Azure CLI in the Prerequisites step.
  • Then, get a chat client for communicating with the chat completion service, where you also specify the specific model deployment to use. Use one of the deployments that you created in the Prerequisites step.
  • Finally, create the agent, providing instructions and a name for the agent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 264 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 264 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 5ba32b7af1a7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

run-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository managedcode/dotPilot (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 2,081 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to run-agent, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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