azure-cognitive-search
Azure AI Search Skill
This skill provides expert guidance for Azure AI Search. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.
How to Use This Skill
IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g.,
L35-L120), useread_filewith the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g.,[security.md](security.md)), useread_fileon the linked reference file
IMPORTANT for Agent: If
metadata.generated_atis more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. Ifmcp_microsoftdocstools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide
This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:
- Preferred: Use
mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetchwith query stringfrom=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown. - Fallback: Use
fetch_webpagewith query stringfrom=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.
Category Index
| Category | Lines | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Troubleshooting | L37-L48 | Diagnosing and fixing Azure AI Search indexer and skillset issues, including debug sessions, OData filter errors, private link problems, and storage/metrics discrepancies. |
| Best Practices | L49-L69 | Design, scaling, and performance tuning of Azure AI Search indexing/querying, including enrichment pipelines, chunking/vectorization, data modeling, concurrency-safe updates, and vector optimization. |
| Decision Making | L70-L82 | Planning Azure AI Search capacity, SKUs, and costs, and upgrading/migrating REST APIs, skills, SDKs, and service tiers for agentic retrieval and .NET apps |
| Architecture & Design Patterns | L83-L89 | Architectural guidance for Azure AI Search: RAG patterns, knowledge store design, multitenancy and tenant isolation, and multi-region/high-availability deployment designs. |
| Limits & Quotas | L90-L99 | Limits, quotas, and behaviors for Azure AI Search: service and index caps by tier, vector/index size limits, indexer scheduling windows, enrichment quotas, and related FAQs. |
| Security | L100-L138 | Securing Azure AI Search: RBAC/keyless auth, keys, CMK encryption, private endpoints, firewalls, indexer identity/network access, ACL/Purview-based document security, and Azure Policy compliance. |
| Configuration | L139-L230 | Configuring Azure AI Search: data sources, indexes, analyzers, skillsets, enrichment, vector/semantic settings, knowledge bases, monitoring, and relevance/answer tuning. |
| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L231-L289 | Integrating Azure AI Search with data sources, SDKs, vectorizers, and custom skills; building knowledge stores; and crafting queries/filters (OData, Lucene, semantic, vector, agentic). |
| Deployment | L290-L297 | Deploying and moving Azure AI Search services with ARM/Bicep/Terraform, plus guidance on cross-region moves and checking regional feature and SKU availability. |
Troubleshooting
Best Practices
Decision Making
Architecture & Design Patterns
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Apply RAG patterns with Azure AI Search and generative AI | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/retrieval-augmented-generation-overview |
| Implement multitenancy and content isolation in Azure AI Search | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-modeling-multitenant-saas-applications |
| Design multi-region architectures for Azure AI Search | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-multi-region |
Limits & Quotas
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Attach Foundry resource and understand AI enrichment quotas | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/cognitive-search-attach-cognitive-services |
| Review Azure AI Search limits and behaviors from FAQ | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-faq-frequently-asked-questions |
| Schedule Azure AI Search indexers and understand run windows | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-howto-schedule-indexers |
| Azure AI Search service limits and quotas by tier | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-limits-quotas-capacity |
| Understand index count limits for Azure AI Search tiers in .NET tutorial | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/tutorial-csharp-create-load-index |
| Understand Azure AI Search vector index size limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/vector-search-index-size |
Security
Configuration
Integrations & Coding Patterns
Deployment
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Deploy Azure AI Search service using ARM templates | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-get-started-arm |
| Deploy Azure AI Search service using Bicep | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-get-started-bicep |
| Provision Azure AI Search with Terraform | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-get-started-terraform |
| Manually move Azure AI Search services across regions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-howto-move-across-regions |
| Check Azure AI Search regional feature availability | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-region-support |
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