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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
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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.
| Outcome | Read |
|---|---|
| Cleanup | Plan cleanup |
| Failure/drift | Diagnose |
| Unsupported connector provisioning / multi-source KB creation or reconfiguration | Diagnose |
| Connect | Connect |
| Read KB | Query |
| Search only | Search |
| File KS only | File |
| Blob/ADLS KS only | Blob |
| Searchable/KB | KB |
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.
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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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- Microsoft
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- Microsoft (Official)
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