Loading a foundry agent as workflow executor

[pjirsa]

The current samples seem to be out of sync with the latest foundry SDKs for loading or creating agents as workflow executors. The agent-framework agent examples demonstrate the latest code which leverages the AzureAIAgentProvider class to create or load agents. However, probably due to my inexperience with Python, I cannot figure out how to use these async functions when trying to declare my agent (or workflow) in the global namespace. If i use asyncio.run, i get an error that I can't do that from an already running loop. If I skip that, I get an error that my entity type is not correct.

# Agent instance following Agent Framework conventions
provider = AzureAIProjectAgentProvider(
    project_endpoint=os.environ.get("AZURE_AI_PROJECT_ENDPOINT"),
    model=os.environ.get("FOUNDRY_MODEL_DEPLOYMENT_NAME"),
    credential=AzureCliCredential()
)

agent = provider.create_agent(
    name="FoundryWeatherAgent",
    instructions="""
    You are a weather assistant using Azure AI Foundry models. You can provide
    current weather information and forecasts for any location. Always be helpful
    and provide detailed weather information when asked.
    """,
    tools=[get_weather, get_forecast],
)

Error is: Error: Entity loading failed: No valid entity found

OR with asyncio

provider = AzureAIProjectAgentProvider(
    project_endpoint=os.environ.get("AZURE_AI_PROJECT_ENDPOINT"),
    model=os.environ.get("FOUNDRY_MODEL_DEPLOYMENT_NAME"),
    credential=AzureCliCredential()
)

agent = asyncio.run(provider.create_agent(
    name="FoundryWeatherAgent",
    instructions="""
    You are a weather assistant using Azure AI Foundry models. You can provide
    current weather information and forecasts for any location. Always be helpful
    and provide detailed weather information when asked.
    """,
    tools=[get_weather, get_forecast],
))

Error is: Entity loading failed: Failed to load entity 'foundry_agent': asyncio.run() cannot be called from a running event loop