Building a listed tool
Kevin Scott
Named behind 28 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Kevin builds
Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) C · Guardrails & safety filters
Microsoft's API for analysing harmful text and images, detecting prompt injection and checking groundedness.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Azure Blob Storage BB · File storage & sharing
Microsoft Azure's object storage for files, backups and application data. Agents call a REST API or the Azure SDKs on a storage account, signing in with Microsoft Entra ID, an account key or a shared access signature.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Azure DevOps MCP Server B · Code & developer platforms
Microsoft's official MCP server for Azure DevOps Services. It gives agents work items, repositories, pull requests, pipelines, wikis, test plans and Advanced Security alerts, through a hosted endpoint with Microsoft Entra sign-in or a local npm package.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Azure Document Intelligence B · Document parsing & extraction
Microsoft's Azure service for OCR, layout analysis and field extraction from PDFs, images and Office files. It has prebuilt models for invoices, receipts, identity and tax documents, and custom models. Access is a REST API with four SDKs.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) C · Fine-tuning
Azure's managed service for supervised, preference and reinforcement fine-tuning of supported OpenAI and open-weight models.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Azure Key Vault BB · Secrets & credential vaults
Microsoft Azure's managed store for secrets, encryption keys and TLS certificates. Applications read secrets over a REST API or the Azure SDKs and CLI, signing in with Microsoft Entra ID and authorised by Azure role assignments.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Azure Maps B · Maps, geocoding & places
Microsoft Azure's mapping service. Its REST APIs at
atlas.microsoft.comcover geocoding, reverse geocoding, place search, routing with traffic, map tiles, time zones and weather, with access by subscription key, SAS token or Microsoft Entra ID.Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Azure MCP Server BB · Cloud & infrastructure
Microsoft's official local MCP server for Azure (
@azure/mcp, also on NuGet as Azure.Mcp).Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Azure AI Speech speech-to-text BB · Speech-to-text
Azure's speech-to-text service for transcribing audio.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Azure AI Speech text-to-speech BB · Text-to-speech
Azure's text-to-speech service for generating spoken audio.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Azure Translator BB · Translation
Microsoft's translation API, now part of Foundry Tools.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft Copilot Studio MCP D · Workflow automation
Microsoft's official MCP server for Copilot Studio, a local stdio bridge run with npx. After Microsoft work-account sign-in it exposes Copilot Studio's hosted tools for building, testing and monitoring agents and workflows, and for connector setup.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales B · CRM & customer platforms
Microsoft's sales CRM for accounts, contacts, leads and opportunities. Its data is held in Dataverse and reached through the Dataverse Web API (OData v4), SDKs for .NET and Python, and the Dataverse MCP server.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft's on-device model runtime, built on ONNX Runtime. Applications embed it through SDKs for C#, JavaScript, Python and Rust, and it can start an optional OpenAI-compatible server on localhost. A preview CLI is also available.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft Advertising API C · Advertising & campaign operations
Microsoft's API for Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) search, shopping and audience campaigns. It covers campaign management, bulk upload and download, reporting, ad insight, billing and account management over REST and SOAP.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft Agent Framework A · Agent frameworks & SDKs
Microsoft Agent Framework is an open-source SDK for building AI agents and multi-agent workflows in Python and .NET, with a Go version in public preview. Microsoft names it the successor to AutoGen and Semantic Kernel.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft-Decision-1 E · Decision models
Microsoft-Decision-1 is a Microsoft model, post-trained from Qwen3.5-9B, that scores fixed answer options with a calibrated probability for each. It is in public preview on Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter, at $0.042 per million input tokens.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft Entra Agent ID BB · Agent auth & delegated access
Microsoft Entra Agent ID is an identity type for AI agents in Microsoft Entra ID. Agents get their own directory identity, request OAuth 2.0 tokens autonomously or on behalf of a user, and are managed through Microsoft Graph.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) C · Spreadsheets & operational tables
Workbook endpoints of Microsoft Graph for Excel files stored in OneDrive for work or school and SharePoint. Calls read and write ranges, tables, charts and named items, and run Excel worksheet functions on a file in place.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft Execution Containers BB · Code execution sandboxes
Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) is an open-source SDK for running untrusted code in a local sandbox on Windows, Linux and macOS. An application embeds it through Node.js, .NET or Rust and sets filesystem, network and UI policy for each run.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft Graph Calendar API B · Calendars & scheduling
Calendar endpoints of Microsoft Graph for Outlook, Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft Graph People and Contacts API B · Contacts & address books
Microsoft Graph endpoints for a user's Outlook personal contacts and contact folders, with delta sync, and the people API, which ranks the people most relevant to a user and supports fuzzy search.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft Learn MCP Server D · Code & developer platforms
Microsoft's hosted documentation server at learn.microsoft.com/api/mcp.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Graph) B · Work & productivity
Microsoft Graph endpoints for Microsoft Teams. An app lists teams, channels and chats, reads and sends messages, manages members and receives change notifications over REST, with OAuth tokens from Microsoft Entra ID for work or school accounts.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
OneDrive and SharePoint files (Microsoft Graph) B · File storage & sharing
Drive and driveItem endpoints of Microsoft Graph for files in OneDrive, OneDrive for work or school and SharePoint document libraries. Calls upload, download, list, search, share by link or invitation, and delete files and folders.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) B · Mailbox access
Mail endpoints of Microsoft Graph for Outlook, Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online mailboxes. An app reads, searches, drafts, sends and files messages over REST with OAuth tokens from Microsoft Entra ID.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Playwright MCP B · Browser automation
Browser automation MCP server built on Playwright that drives pages via structured accessibility snapshots rather than screenshots.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Microsoft Power Automate B · Workflow automation
Microsoft's workflow builder for cloud flows across Microsoft 365, Dataverse and third-party connectors. Outside agents list, create, update and delete solution-aware flows through the Dataverse Web API, and start a flow through its HTTP request trigger.
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Achint Srivastava VP of Software Engineering, Office of the CTO; Decision-1 launch author
- Bill Gates Co-founder and technical adviser, Microsoft
- Dan Hellem Principal Product Manager, Azure DevOps
- Darrel Miller Partner API Architect
- Eric Imasogie Senior Product Manager; Microsoft Learn MCP server owner
- Julie Strauss Vice President, AI Sales, Marketing and Incubations
- Paul Allen Co-founder, Microsoft, left day-to-day work there in 1983
- Pieter de Bruin Technical Program Manager; Learn partnerships and MCP integrations
- Sandeep K Sen Product Manager, Azure MCP and CoreAI
- Satya Nadella Chairman and CEO, Microsoft
- Shawn Henry Principal Group Product Manager; Product Lead, Microsoft Agent Framework
- Tianqi Zhang Principal Software Engineering Manager; Learn knowledge-discovery and MCP team
- Yury Semikhatsky Principal Software Engineer; active Playwright MCP maintainer
Questions
Who is Kevin Scott?
Kevin Scott is Microsoft's chief technology officer. He was earlier senior vice president of engineering and operations at LinkedIn, which he led through its IPO, and before that oversaw mobile ads engineering at Google, including the integration of AdMob. He hosts the Behind the Tech podcast and sits on Shopify's board.
What does Microsoft make?
Anchor Terminal lists Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields), Azure Blob Storage, Azure DevOps MCP Server, Azure Document Intelligence, Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI), Azure Key Vault, Azure Maps, Azure MCP Server, Azure AI Speech speech-to-text, Azure AI Speech text-to-speech, Azure Translator, Microsoft Copilot Studio MCP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, Foundry Local, Microsoft Advertising API, Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft-Decision-1, Microsoft Entra Agent ID, Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API), Microsoft Execution Containers, Microsoft Graph Calendar API, Microsoft Graph People and Contacts API, Microsoft Learn MCP Server, Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Graph), OneDrive and SharePoint files (Microsoft Graph), Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph), Playwright MCP and Microsoft Power Automate from Microsoft. Microsoft's API for analysing harmful text and images, detecting prompt injection and checking groundedness.
How are Kevin's tools graded?
Azure AI Content Safety (Prompt Shields) is graded C, 60.7 out of 100; Azure Blob Storage is graded BB, 75.8 out of 100; Azure DevOps MCP Server is graded B, 66.4 out of 100; Azure Document Intelligence is graded B, 66.1 out of 100; Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) is graded C, 61.2 out of 100; Azure Key Vault is graded BB, 74.8 out of 100; Azure Maps is graded B, 68 out of 100; Azure MCP Server is graded BB, 70 out of 100; Azure AI Speech speech-to-text is graded BB, 73.1 out of 100; Azure AI Speech text-to-speech is graded BB, 71.5 out of 100; Azure Translator is graded BB, 72 out of 100; Microsoft Copilot Studio MCP is graded D, 53.2 out of 100; Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales is graded B, 69.8 out of 100; Foundry Local is graded C, 60.5 out of 100; Microsoft Advertising API is graded C, 60.4 out of 100; Microsoft Agent Framework is graded A, 82.4 out of 100; Microsoft-Decision-1 is graded E, 39.2 out of 100; Microsoft Entra Agent ID is graded BB, 74.5 out of 100; Microsoft Excel (Microsoft Graph workbook API) is graded C, 58.6 out of 100; Microsoft Execution Containers is graded BB, 76.4 out of 100; Microsoft Graph Calendar API is graded B, 65.2 out of 100; Microsoft Graph People and Contacts API is graded B, 64.7 out of 100; Microsoft Learn MCP Server is graded D, 48 out of 100; Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Graph) is graded B, 62.3 out of 100; OneDrive and SharePoint files (Microsoft Graph) is graded B, 65.4 out of 100; Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) is graded B, 66.4 out of 100; Playwright MCP is graded B, 67.7 out of 100; Microsoft Power Automate is graded B, 62 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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