App
An App is a catalog resource that represents an application or plugin that consumes AI Foundry's built-in tools. For example, an IDE-based coding assistant such as "Claude Code" can be registered as an App, with built-in tools like a web-search tool declared as belonging to it.
App reference
| Field | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
Title | Yes | Display name shown in the UI, for example "Claude Code". |
Name | Yes | Unique identifier, automatically derived from Title. Lowercase letters, digits, dots, and hyphens only (^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9.-]*[a-z0-9]$). |
Description | Yes | Description of what the application or plugin is and how it uses AI Foundry's built-in tools. |
Tags | No | Free-form, multi-value tags used to make the App easier to find and filter. |
Grouping built-in tools by App
A built-in Tool must declare which App it belongs to through its required Application field. This groups built-in tools by the client application or plugin that owns them, mirroring how tools sourced from an MCP Server are instead grouped by the MCP Server that exposes them.
See also
- Tool: built-in tools declare their owning App.
- MCP Server: the equivalent grouping mechanism for externally-sourced tools.