By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Publication Date: 2025-12-30 10:16:00
Microsoft announced during its annual Ignite conference the public preview of memory in the Foundry Agent Service, a fully managed, long-term memory store natively integrated with its agent service.
With memory, developers can store, retrieve, and manage chat summaries, user preferences, and critical context across sessions, devices, and workflows. The authors of a Foundry blog post write:
Our memory systematically extracts both user profile information and chat summaries from conversation histories.
In the Foundry portal, developers can enable the memory feature, and the memory store will be automatically created and configured for their agent. In addition, developers can use the SDK or APIs to work with the feature.
In the documentation, the company explains that memories are stored as items in a managed memory store and operate in three phases:
- Extraction phase, where the system extracts key information from user interactions, such as preferences (e.g.,…