# Microsoft Azure AI Foundry connector features table

> See the following table for an overview of the capabilities offered by the connector when
executing agents in agentic processes.

See the following table for an overview of the capabilities offered by the connector when
executing agents in agentic processes.

| Feature Area | Feature | Foundry AI Agent in Maestro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Authentication | Single token, Bearer token (e.g. Personal Access Token). | No |
| Authentication | Service Principal-based authentication (e.g., service key, OAuth 2.0). | Yes |
| Authentication | User-delegated token-based authentication (e.g., On-Behalf-Of, OpenID). | No |
| Project Discovery | Discover available projects based on authentication. | No (provided by the user) |
| Agent Discovery | Discover available agents. | Yes (lists all agents in a project) |
| Invocation | Supports synchronous (request-response) invocation. | No |
| Invocation | Supports streaming invocation (Server-Sent Events). | No |
| Invocation | Supports asynchronous invocation with polling or webhook/callback. | Yes |
| Invocation | Ability to specify the agent's tools/skills within the API request. | Yes (in Prompt) |
| Session Management | Maintains conversational context via session IDs and allows for the retrieval of event history from an ongoing session. | Yes (use of **thread\\_id** within **Manage Properties** in Maestro) |
| Output Controls | Enforces structured, schema-adherent JSON output from agents. | No |
| Content Handling | Supports multi-modal content exchange (e.g., binary files, images, audio). | Partial (possible if the developer encodes the output and sends it in the prompt) |
| Observability | Provides comprehensive observability through togglable verbose tracing, OTEL-formatted traces, and cross-platform correlation IDs. | Yes (in Azure Foundry Portal) |
| Consumption & Attribution | Tracks and attributes AI consumption (tokens/units) per response for cost analysis. | Yes (in Portal) |
| Versioning | Enables agent versioning for CI/CD workflows, targeted invocations by version number (e.g., GA, preview), and rollbacks. | No |
| Error Handling | Delivers structured, detailed error messages (reason, domain, metadata) for advanced debugging and conditional logic. | Yes |