Build AI agent tools using remote MCP with Azure Functions

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Apr 04, 2025

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a way for apps to provide capabilities and context to a large language model. A key feature of MCP is the ability to define tools that AI agents can leverage to accomp...

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jigarchhadwa

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Apr 05, 2025

Azure functions are generally stateless. How does this manages the state of the connection that is requured for MCP with SSE protocol?

Anirudh Garg
Microsoft
Apr 05, 2025
Thats a great question jigar. We have implemented backplane support - so that we maintain persistent connection across multiple instances using Azure Storage.. Using Azure queues we forward requests to the right instance based on the client.

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Build AI agent tools using remote MCP with Azure Functions