Question

You are building an agent with the Azure AI Foundry Agent Service SDK. Your code creates a thread, adds a user message to it, and then wants the agent to process the conversation and produce a response. After creating the run, you notice your code immediately reads the thread messages but finds no assistant reply. What is the correct approach to reliably retrieve the agent's response?

Accepted Answer

Poll the run status until it reaches a terminal state such as 'completed', then list the thread messages to read the newly added assistant message.

Answer

Add the user message a second time so the agent detects the change and generates a response synchronously.

Answer

Create a new thread for every turn because assistant messages are only returned on freshly created threads.

Answer

Delete the run and re-create the agent definition, since assistant replies are attached to the agent object rather than the thread.