Building a Conversational Alexa Skill with Microsoft Foundry Agents

What happens if you give Alexa a modern AI agent? Alexa already provides a microphone, a speaker, and a natural place for a conversation, but it has not traditionally been backed by a particularly powerful or stateful AI. Microsoft Foundry agents offer reasoning, tools, and conversation context, but they do not come with a ready-made consumer interface. Combining the two seemed like an interesting…