Foundry IQ

Permission-aware knowledge base that answers agent queries by agentic retrieval over connected enterprise data sources.

Provider: azure
Kind: Search index
Category: Data
Official docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/agents/concepts/what-is-foundry-iq

Properties · 2 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
citations · component property	boolean	—	no	true	inherited
geoScheme · advanced	enum	none \| s2 \| h3 \| geohash \| quadtree	no	none	inherited
indexing	enum	sync \| async \| batch	no	async	▸ batch
knowledgeSourceType · component property	enum	azure-blob \| sharepoint \| onelake \| web \| search-index	no	—	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
permissionEnforcement · component property	boolean	—	no	true	inherited
rebuildCadenceHours · advanced	integer	—	no	—	inherited
replicas	integer	—	no	—	inherited
retrievalReasoningEffort · component property	enum	minimal \| low \| medium	no	—	inherited
semanticReranking · component property	boolean	—	no	true	inherited
shardingStrategy · advanced	enum	none \| hash \| geo \| time \| prefix-range	no	none	inherited
structure	enum	inverted \| trie \| vector \| geo-cell	no	inverted	inherited

Rules that apply · 1

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

Search index without an asynchronous feederror

derived-store-without-cdc-or-rebuild

A search index is derived data and needs an asynchronous feed from a stream, change data capture or an indexing worker. Without one it is written inline on the request path, and it can never be rebuilt after it drifts.

— this does not hold:
— the node has at least one asynchronous incoming edge from a stream, change-data-capture or worker

Use it in a design

nodes:
  - { id: "foundry-iq", component: "azure-foundry-iq" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Foundry IQ: a knowledge base over enterprise knowledge sources that agents query through agentic retrieval, built on Azure AI Search indexing.
3# "What is Foundry IQ?" states indexed sources are chunked, embedded and refreshed by scheduled indexer runs, that results are semantically reranked and returned with citations, and that permissions are enforced at query time under the caller's Entra identity.
4schemaVersion: "1"
5type: "component"
6id: "azure-foundry-iq"
7kind: "search-index"
8provider: "azure"
9docs: "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/agents/concepts/what-is-foundry-iq"
10defaults:
11  managed: true
12  indexing: "batch"
13properties:
14  knowledgeSourceType:
15    type: "enum"
16    values: ["azure-blob", "sharepoint", "onelake", "web", "search-index"]
17  retrievalReasoningEffort:
18    type: "enum"
19    values: ["minimal", "low", "medium"]
20  permissionEnforcement:
21    type: "boolean"
22    default: true
23  semanticReranking:
24    type: "boolean"
25    default: true
26  citations:
27    type: "boolean"
28    default: true

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/azure-foundry-iq.md