foundry-iq

Turns your documents into a knowledge base that an AI agent on Microsoft Foundry can search and answer from, and looks after it from setup to cleanup.

WHEN TO USE

SCOPE

USE FOR

Make a set of files searchable by loading them into a knowledge base.
Pull documents from Azure Blob Storage or Data Lake into a searchable knowledge base.
Connect an existing knowledge base to an AI agent so its answers draw on your documents.
Ask a knowledge base a question directly and see what it brings back.
Work out why a knowledge base setup failed or drifted from what was planned.
Plan the removal of knowledge-base resources you no longer need.

NOT FOR

General AI agents that do not involve a knowledge base; that is the microsoft-foundry skill.
Building a knowledge base from several sources at once; it explains the limit and stops instead.

This is a saved copy of the skill's SKILL.md instructions. It may differ from the upstream file or the version you install.

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. 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.

This skill ships inside the Azure Skills Plugin. Listed package contents include hooks and an MCP server. Installed components and skill versions may vary by AI tool.

Run this outside your AI tool, using Node.js 22.20.0 or newer. Skills CLI 1.7.2 skips skill selection; prompts cancel installation without an interactive terminal. If choosing Project when asked about installation scope, open your project's folder before running this.

Install checklist

Check selected tools if a picker appears; Claude Code may be unchecked under Additional agents. ↑/↓ moves, Space toggles selections, Enter confirms.
Without a tool picker, check Installing to: for your intended tool. Stop if it names a different tool.
If asked, choose Symlink (Recommended) for shared files or Copy to all agents for separate copies; review the summary before confirming installation.
Install the find-skills skill? defaults to Yes, adding another skill for all projects. Choose No if you don't want that extra installation.

Skills CLI 1.7.2 sends install data to skills.sh by default, including the source, skill names, target tools and file details; GitHub sources are reported only when GitHub confirms the repository is public, while other remote sources can also be reported. Confirmed-public GitHub sources also trigger a security-audit request. Before installing, set the environment variable DO_NOT_TRACK=1 or DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 to disable both.

npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill "foundry-iq" --full-depth

After installing for Claude Code, open it in the installation project if you chose Project; Global makes the skill available across projects on this computer. Once Claude Code loads the skill, its description helps Claude decide when to use it.

If installation created a top-level skills folder that did not exist when your Claude Code session started, run /reload-skills in that session. Run it again after later changes in that folder.

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