Workflows in Microsoft Foundry

This article explains what Workflows are in Microsoft Foundry, a visual and declarative way to define a sequence of actions that can invoke agents, add logic, transform data, and interact with users.

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Microsoft Foundry's Workflows are designed to handle tasks with multiple steps, decisions, validations, and sometimes human intervention. They provide a visual, UI-based way to define a declarative sequence of actions that can invoke agents, add logical branching, transform data, and interact with the user through messages and questions. This allows building robust automations by combining different components like specialized agents, process logic, user interactions, and Power Fx variables and expressions. The article covers key workflow patterns like 'Human in the loop', 'Sequential', and 'Group chat' to coordinate multiple agents. It also provides a step-by-step example of creating a simple workflow that asks the user for their name, stores it in a variable, and then uses a Power Fx formula to return the name in uppercase.