Hosted Agents Workshop is a hands-on .NET 10 course for building a Microsoft Foundry hosted agent, from local development through continuous integration, Azure deployment, and a chat interface. It guides beginners in creating a Readiness Coach that helps delivery teams plan and troubleshoot hosted-agent projects.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/Hosted_Agents_Workshop_dotNET. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/Hosted_Agents_Workshop_dotNET/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/Hosted_Agents_Workshop_dotNETWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/hosted_agents_workshop_dotnet/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/hosted_agents_workshop_dotnet/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/hosted_agents_workshop_dotnet/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/hosted_agents_workshop_dotnet/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/hosted_agents_workshop_dotnet/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00474 | $0.00474 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00190 | $0.00190 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00095 | $0.00095 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00047 | $0.00047 |
Grade A, and why
Hosted_Agents_Workshop_dotNET AGENTS.md 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 2mo ago.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
This file defines repository-level guidance for coding agents and contributors.
Repository Purpose
This repo is a beginner workshop for Microsoft Foundry hosted agents with .NET 10.
Primary learning flow:
- Local hosted agent setup and validation
- Copilot customization
- Deterministic tool implementation and tests
- CI validation
- Azure deployment flow
- UI integration and screenshot capture
General Rules
- Keep instructions beginner-friendly and copy-paste ready.
- Prefer placeholder values in docs over real subscription, tenant, endpoint, or registry identifiers.
- Keep examples safe for public sharing.
- Preserve the current lab sequence and avoid reordering labs without a clear reason.
Documentation Rules
- Use short sections and simple language.
- Include expected results for each lab step.
- For any command that depends on user environment, show placeholders:
<account><project><your-acr-name>
- If screenshots are referenced, ensure the files exist in
labs/lab-5-ui/images.
Code and Build Rules
- Target framework is .NET 10.
- Keep deterministic business logic in
src/WorkshopLab.Core. - Keep hosted agent host behavior in
src/WorkshopLab.AgentHost. - Run tests when changing core logic:
dotnet test WorkshopLab.sln
UI Screenshot Workflow
When UI images need refresh for docs:
- Start the app:
dotnet run --project src/WorkshopLab.ChatUI --urls http://localhost:5075
- In another terminal, run screenshot capture:
npm run capture:screenshots
Expected outputs:
labs/lab-5-ui/images/01-chat-ui-landing.pnglabs/lab-5-ui/images/02-chat-ui-prompt-entered.pnglabs/lab-5-ui/images/03-chat-ui-response-hd.png
Public Sharing Checklist
Before publishing updates:
- No hardcoded personal tenant IDs, subscription IDs, or project endpoints
- No hardcoded personal ACR names
.gitignoreincludes local-only artifacts (for examplenode_modules/, local logs, debug outputs)- Beginner docs still read top-to-bottom without hidden assumptions
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 76 lines · 474 tokens per session scan A 98a32d113795
Hosted_Agents_Workshop_dotNET AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/Hosted_Agents_Workshop_dotNET (26 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 474 tokens to every session, about $0.0019 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hosted_Agents_Workshop_dotNET AGENTS.mdmicrosoft/Hosted_Agents_Workshop_dotNET | Instructions file | 26 | 10d ago | MIT | A | 474 | Codex, OpenCode |
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