From the course: Building Agents Using the Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
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Tool overview
From the course: Building Agents Using the Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
Tool overview
- [Instructor] The agent service provides us a wide range of built-in tools in two categories. Knowledge tools keep your agent informed from various data sources. You have access to private data such as Azure AI Search, file search, and Microsoft Fabric, public web data through Bing search, and licensed data, such as TripAdvisor. You would normally use Azure AI Search or file search if your data is unstructured, such as health plans, contracts, manuals, and the like. If your data is in a structured format like a table, Microsoft Fabric can be your choice. Action tools provide numerous capabilities to your agents. Deep research tool allows you to do research using a reasoning model and Bing search. Azure Logic Apps allows you to add workflows using low code and no code. OpenAPI Spec allows you to access other systems that have an existing OpenAPI specification. MCP allows you to access model context protocol endpoints. Function calling lets you write your own custom stateless functions…
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