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Foundry Iq

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From the author

Foundry IQ knowledge bases. WHEN: make local or Blob documents searchable; create/diagnose KBs; triage unsupported connectors or multi-source KB creation/reconfiguration (even with classic-search terms); connect existing KB to agents (including multi-source KBs); create/reuse a Search service; retrieve from an existing knowledge base with citations; no brand words needed. Read its procedure before query/target questions. NOT: other KB providers, repository-file search, classic Azure AI Search index/query/app work with no Foundry IQ KB or connector request, generic agent creation.
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Foundry IQ provides a structured framework for creating, diagnosing, and connecting knowledge bases to AI agents. It supports making local or Blob-based documents searchable, managing multi-source knowledge configurations, and retrieving information with citations. The skill emphasizes strict adherence to defined procedures for service discovery, resource creation, and troubleshooting to ensure reliable agent-knowledge integration.

What it does

  • Creates searchable knowledge bases from local or Azure Blob storage documents.
  • Connects existing knowledge bases to AI agents.
  • Diagnoses issues with knowledge base configurations or unsupported connectors.
  • Retrieves information from knowledge bases with source citations.
  • Manages the lifecycle of search services and knowledge sources.
  • Routes requests based on specific operational needs rather than source counts.

When to use it

  • When you need to make local or cloud-stored documents searchable by an AI agent.
  • When connecting an existing knowledge base to a new or current agent.
  • When troubleshooting or diagnosing a knowledge base configuration.
  • When you need to create a new search service or knowledge source.
  • When performing retrieval tasks that require citations from a knowledge base.

Advantages

  • Provides a clear, procedural approach to knowledge base management.
  • Ensures consistent handling of multi-source knowledge configurations.
  • Includes built-in diagnostic paths for troubleshooting.
  • Supports secure, citation-backed retrieval for agent responses.
  • Prevents unauthorized or unsupported configuration changes.

Usage examples

“Create a new knowledge base from my Azure Blob container.”
The agent will initiate the knowledge base creation procedure, validating the source and setting up the necessary search indexing.
“Connect my existing knowledge base to the current agent.”
The agent will follow the connection workflow to link the specified knowledge base to the agent's retrieval pipeline.
“Why is my multi-source knowledge base failing to index?”
The agent will trigger the diagnostic procedure to identify configuration drifts or unsupported connector issues.
“Retrieve information about project timelines from the knowledge base.”
The agent will query the knowledge base and provide an answer with citations from the source documents.

Install

  1. Download the skill as a ZIP:

    https://autogineer.com/agent-skills/microsoft/foundry-iq/download
  2. Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

    mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip foundry-iq.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Microsoft

Foundry IQ

Read one procedure before questions/actions; invocation is not a read. Read the owning procedure before blocked/unsupported responses too. Before mutation plans/approval, successfully read its required pre-action references, selected branches only. Do not reload successful reads. On failure, try only permitted bounded exact-path reads with any supported reader; never bypass restrictions or search broadly. If still unavailable: blocked: reference-unavailable, name missing references and inability to plan. Never invent requirements/plans. Failures first.

Cleanup and receipt-backed execution go directly to their lifecycle/producer owner; do not reopen Search intake, provisioning or hardening.

Before expensive service discovery, reuse supplied resource/intent; otherwise ask one early USE EXISTING / FIND CANDIDATES / CREATE NEW choice. Only FIND enumerates; supplied identity uses exact/minimum scoped resolution. CREATE checks its proposed name, not existing-service inventories. Preserve these answers across source/KB/CU/model handoffs; selection is not write approval.

Searchable docs: KB + validated retrieval. Confirm intent once; KS-only must be explicit. Child success is not KB completion. Unclear/compound/mode/completion: read.

Route by requested operation, not existing KB source count. Connecting an existing KB with two or more sources, without changing the KB, uses Connect. Read-only operations use their owning procedure and actual helper constraints; this does not add retrieval modes or supported source kinds. Explicit unsupported provisioning or multi-source KB creation/reconfiguration uses Diagnose and stops before discovery, even when connecting an agent is also requested. This routing takes precedence over classic-search terms (e.g. hybrid search) in compound requests. Never end in a plain refusal: Diagnose gives the boundary, docs pointer and agent handoff; writes still need an approved concrete plan. Do not silently execute only the supported part of a compound request. If existing-KB connection versus KB creation/reconfiguration is unclear, read intent-routing and clarify that scope before Azure discovery. Never infer KB mutation.

OutcomeRead
CleanupPlan cleanup
Failure/driftDiagnose
Unsupported connector provisioning / multi-source KB creation or reconfigurationDiagnose
ConnectConnect
Read KBQuery
Search onlySearch
File KS onlyFile
Blob/ADLS KS onlyBlob
Searchable/KBKB

Generic agents: microsoft-foundry. Reads: no approval; approve unchanged plans before writes. Hide hashes. No Search/Storage keys, scope widening, guessed identity/boundaries, drift repair or joint cleanup/creation approval. Acceptance != success.

Files

helpers/_embedding.py

"""Shared embedding choices and readback validation, without workflow orchestration."""
from __future__ import annotations

import copy
import json
import re
from typing import Any
from urllib.parse import urlsplit

try:
    from ._common import HelperFailure, reject_secrets, require_allowed_fields, model_definition
    from . import _search_read
except ImportError:
    from _common import HelperFailure, reject_secrets, require_allowed_fields, model_definition
    import _search_read


MODELS = {"text-embedding-ada-002": (1536, 1536),
          "text-embedding-3-small": (1, 1536), "text-embedding-3-large": (1, 3072)}


def fail(code: str, message: str) -> HelperFailure:
    return HelperFailure(code, message, blocked_at="vector-verification")


def _text(value: Any, *, maximum: int = 4096) -> bool:
    return isinstance(value, str) and bool(value.strip()) and len(value) <= maximum


def _json_valid(value: Any) -> None:
    try:
        json.dumps(value, ensure_ascii=False, allow_nan=False).encode("utf-8")
    except (UnicodeError, TypeError, ValueError) as exc:
        raise fail("input-schema-invalid", "Evidence must be finite, valid UTF-8 JSON.") from exc


def validate_choice(value: Any, *, enabled: bool, api_version: str) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
    if not enabled:
        if value is not None:
            raise fail("embedding-choice-conflict", "Lexical planning must omit embedding configuration.")
        return None
    if not isinstance(value, dict):
        raise fail("embedding-prerequisite-missing", "Vector planning requires resolved embedding choices.")
    reject_secrets(value)
    require_allowed_fields(value, {
        "endpoint", "deployment", "model", "dimensions", "model_version", "auth", "prerequisites",
    }, label="embedding choices")
    if api_version not in {"2026-04-01", "2026-08-01-preview"}:
        raise fail("embedding-version-unsupported", "Unsupported Search embedding API version.")
    try:
        json.dumps(value, ensure_ascii=False, allow_nan=False).encode("utf-8")
        uri = urlsplit(value.get("endpoint") if isinstance(value.get("endpoint"), str) else "")
        valid_endpoint = (
            uri.scheme == "https" and uri.port is None and not uri.username and not uri.password
            and not uri.query and not uri.fragment and uri.path in {"", "/"}
            and re.fullmatch(
                r"[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,62}\.(openai\.azure\.com|services\.ai\.azure\.com|cognitiveservices\.azure\.com)",
                uri.netloc,
            )
        )
    except (UnicodeError, ValueError, TypeError) as exc:
        raise fail("embedding-choice-invalid", "Embedding choices must be valid UTF-8 and an exact HTTPS endpoint.") from exc
    if (
        not valid_endpoint or not _text(value.get("deployment"), maximum=64)
        or not re.fullmatch(r"[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_.-]*", value["deployment"])
        or not isinstance(value.get("model"), str) or value["model"] not in MODELS
    ):
        raise fail("embedding-choice-invalid", "Select a supported Azure OpenAI endpoint, deployment and embedding model.")
    if value.get("dimensions") != "service-managed" or value.get("model_version") != "deployment-managed":
        raise fail("embedding-parameter-unsupported", "Knowledge-source APIs expose neither dimensions nor a model-version pin; custom values are unsupported.")
    if value.get("auth") != "system-assigned":
        raise fail("embedding-auth-unsupported", "This planner supports only the existing Search system-assigned identity; no keys or identity changes.")
    prerequisites = value.get("prerequisites")
    if not isinstance(prerequisites, dict):
        raise fail("embedding-prerequisite-missing", "Provide current deployment, identity and network evidence references.")
    require_allowed_fields(prerequisites, {"deployment", "identity", "network"}, label="embedding prerequisites")
    if any(not _text(prerequisites.get(key)) for key in ("deployment", "identity", "network")):
        raise fail("embedding-prerequisite-missing", "Owner-verified deployment/model, Search identity/RBAC and network evidence is required.")
    return copy.deepcopy(value)


def verify_model_readback(choice: dict[str, Any], model: Any) -> None:
    parameters = model.get("azureOpenAIParameters") if isinstance(model, dict) else None
    if not isinstance(parameters, dict):
        raise fail("embedding-readback-invalid", "Observed embedding parameters must be an object.")
    # Generic definition normalization omits apiKey; check auth evidence before matching.
    api_key = parameters.get("apiKey")
    if (
        api_key is not None and not (isinstance(api_key, str) and api_key == "")
        or parameters.get("authIdentity") is not None
    ):
        raise fail("embedding-auth-conflict", "Observed embedding authentication does not prove the selected system-assigned mode; key/identity details withheld.")
    if not _search_read.definitions_match(model_definition(choice), model):
        raise fail("embedding-readback-mismatch", "Observed embedding endpoint/deployment/model differs from the selected configuration.")


def verify_source_readback(choice: dict[str, Any] | None, current: Any) -> None:
    if choice is None or current is None:
        return
    kind = current.get("kind") if isinstance(current, dict) else None
    if kind not in ("file", "azureBlob"):
        raise fail("embedding-readback-invalid", "Expected a File/Blob embedding source readback.")
    parameters = current.get("fileParameters" if kind == "file" else "azureBlobParameters")
    ingestion = parameters.get("ingestionParameters") if isinstance(parameters, dict) else None
    verify_model_readback(choice, ingestion.get("embeddingModel") if isinstance(ingestion, dict) else None)


def validate_plan_choice(plan: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
    if "embedding" not in plan:
        return
    source = plan.get("source", {})
    choice = validate_choice(plan["embedding"], enabled=True, api_version=source.get("api_version"))
    desired = source.get("desired", {})
    parameters = desired.get("fileParameters" if desired.get("kind") == "file" else "azureBlobParameters", {})
    ingestion = parameters.get("ingestionParameters", {})
    if ingestion.get("contentExtractionMode") not in ("minimal", "standard") or ingestion.get("embeddingModel") != model_definition(choice):
        raise fail("embedding-plan-mismatch", "Embedding choices and the selected extraction definition must match.")


def summary(choice: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
    return {
        key: choice[key] for key in ("endpoint", "deployment", "model", "dimensions", "model_version", "auth")
    } | {
        "purpose": "Source vectors for hybrid/vector search; not CU extraction or KB chat.",
        "cost": "Creating/ingesting this source invokes billable embeddings and moves content to the selected model. Query vectorization needs separate approval.",
        "prerequisites": "Supplied evidence references are owner-verified, not proof of effective access or deployed model version.",
        "answer_synthesis": "Not configured; ingestion dependencies do not configure KB reasoning, reranking or answer synthesis.",
    }

Requirements and compatibility

Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta

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Needs: Needs Python

The author says: Azure

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