From Good to Great: We Put Agent Optimizer to the Test in Microsoft Foundry

Authors: Abi Komma, Charles Kim, Luffy Chen, Morteza Ziyadi Why hand-tuning agents does not scale An agent’s behavior comes mostly from its natural-language configuration: its instructions, skills, and tool descriptions. Most teams tune that configuration by hand. You write the instruction , run some cases, read the failures, reword , and try again.