Local-first AI Agents in C#: Foundry Local, MEAI, and Microsoft Agent Framework
A C# library bridging Foundry Local SDK with Microsoft.Extensions.AI and Agent Framework for local-first AI agents.
Bruno Capuano, conocido como “El Bruno”, es un Cloud Advocate en Microsoft que comparte en su blog guías y reflexiones sobre Azure, programación .NET, inteligencia artificial, y la intersección entre negocios y tecnología. En su sitio encontrarás artículos técnicos profundos, ejemplos de código en C#, análisis de rendimiento, demos de IA local y contenido dedicado a desarrolladores que desean llevar sus aplicaciones al siguiente nivel. Su estilo es directo, con voz experta y orientado a solucionar problemas reales en entornos
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A C# library bridging Foundry Local SDK with Microsoft.Extensions.AI and Agent Framework for local-first AI agents.
Tips on optimizing GitHub Copilot token usage to avoid high costs, with practical advice for developers.
Adding MAI-Image-2.5 support to ElBruno.Text2Image .NET library and t2i CLI for image generation from terminal or C# code.
VS Code 1.122 enables BYOK models without GitHub sign-in, simplifying enterprise and offline AI workflows.
A reference app combining NVIDIA NeMo, Microsoft Agent Framework, A2A, and Aspire for cross-framework multi-agent workflows.
Experiment comparing GitHub Copilot CLI with SQUAD and GPT-5.5 BYOK for app building, highlighting better AI but persistent need for engineering discipline.
Experiment using GitHub Copilot CLI with GPT-5-mini via BYOK to build a Windows tray app, highlighting that code generation is cheap but quality gates are expensive.
Developer shares how GitHub Copilot helped transform pet projects into over 20 open source NuGet packages for AI, embeddings, and productivity.
Running GitHub Copilot CLI offline with GPU-accelerated local models, comparing performance with CPU-only setup in a real .NET project.
Testing GitHub Copilot CLI offline with local AI models on CPU-only hardware, evaluating performance for .NET development tasks.
ElBruno.OllamaMonitor is a Windows system tray app that monitors local Ollama runtime, showing CPU, RAM, GPU usage, and model status in real-time.
AspireMonitor is a Windows tray app that lets you monitor and control your Aspire AppHost without leaving your IDE.
ClockTray v1.0.0 is a dual-mode Windows utility with GUI and CLI for controlling the taskbar clock, featuring automation and lunar calendar overlay.
Announces t2i v0.16.0 with GPT-Image models and AI agent skills for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code.
Introducing t2i, a CLI tool for generating images from the terminal using cloud AI providers like Azure AI Foundry.
A guide to AOT-friendly DTO mapping in .NET using ElBruno.AotMapper, a Roslyn source-generator that creates compile-time mapping code.
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2 image generation model is now supported in the ElBruno.Text2Image .NET library with a synchronous API.
Microsoft Bing open-sources new embedding models, now usable in C# via LocalEmbeddings.Harrier library.
A .NET 10 tool that builds visual knowledge graphs from codebases, inspired by Karpathy's LLM knowledge compiler concept.
Introduces ElBruno.MarkItDotNet, a .NET library for converting PDFs, Word docs, HTML, and more to Markdown with streaming and DI support.