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## Warnings

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## Title

    [Foundry agent optimization] 'evaluators is required and cannot be empty' / 'No optimizable element found for the hosted agent' / AllEvaluatorsFailedError / 'optimization_model is required'

## Body

    Cause (Documented platform behavior): Preview API gating via Foundry-Features header; the job needs at least one optimizable target and working evaluators; non-interactive CLI can't prompt for the model.
    
    Fix status: documented_behavior
    
    Misleading approaches:
    - Adding evaluators to fix 'evaluators is required and cannot be empty' when the documented cause is the missing preview header.
    
    Other error fragments:
    - No optimizable element found for the hosted agent
    - AllEvaluatorsFailedError
    - optimization_model is required
    - Optimization model deployment '<name>' not found
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs/d9568cdc285118df903f65aa86303d075cc5c1d1/articles/foundry/agents/quickstarts/quickstart-optimize-hosted-agent.md (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Troubleshooting table with causes and fixes for each message, including the Foundry-Features header cause for the evaluators error.
    
    Search phrasings: foundry optimization evaluators is required and cannot be empty; No optimizable element found for the hosted agent; azd ai agent optimize optimization_model is required
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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## Support assessment

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