🚨 Question about Browser Automation Preview

[JHammersley]

I’m trying to use the new Browser Automation tool with Azure AI Agents, but I get the following error when creating an agent:

Message: The tool 'browser_automation' is not supported. It must be one of the following: code_interpreter, file_search, function, bing_grounding, azure_ai_search, openapi, connected_agent, azure_function

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Created an Azure AI Project in westus3.

Created a Playwright workspace (microsoft.loadtestservice/playwrightworkspaces) and verified it is connected as a resource.

Tried attaching it as a tool with BrowserAutomationTool via the Python SDK (azure-ai-projects).

Ran the agent and received the error above.

Expected behavior
Agent should recognize and support the browser_automation tool in preview and allow the AI to use Playwright for browsing tasks.

Region: westus3

SDK: azure-ai-projects (latest available version)

Auth: DefaultAzureCredential

Additional context

Playwright workspace shows up correctly in my Azure resource group and has Succeeded provisioning state.

Docs mention Browser Automation Preview, but I don’t see clear steps on how to enable or register it.

Unsure if I need a feature flag (az feature register), different SDK version, or if the preview is only enabled in specific regions.

Questions:

How do I enable the browser_automation tool in Azure AI Projects?

Is there a required feature registration or private preview enrollment?

Which SDK version or region should I be using to access this preview?

[amynic]

Hi @JHammersley Thank you for taking time to share this - can I confirm which docs page you were following? this one? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/agents/how-to/tools/browser-automation-samples

[JHammersley]

@amynic I followed that one, I also followed Linda Li's blog post on it as well as the video recently posted on it

[mjunaid106]

Any update on this? I get the same error following the blog and yt video but my resource are setup for sweden central.

I found this query here, which talks about requesting access to the feature however I can't find the feature listed under the preview section of the sub.

[carlotta94c]

Hi @JHammersley and @mjunaid106,

Please make sure to have the pre release version of azure ai agents package installed in your environment, as specified by the docs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/agents/how-to/tools/browser-automation-samples:

pip install --pre azure-ai-agents>=1.2.0b2

[mjunaid106]

Thanks, that solved the issue for me