No support for vector search in azure ai foundry SDK

[kuljotSB]

I am working on the azure ai foundry SDK, the one that you use with azure ai agent service, for quite some time now and recently worked with the SDKs support for azure ai search. Although the SDK works pretty well, i believe it’s missing one vital feature - vector search.

I have created a vector index in azure ai search and would like to perform a vector search on it but unfortunately don’t see it being supported by the SDK. I have defined azure ai search connection as a tool during agent creation but don’t see a place to specify the embedding engine that I would want to use to generate vector embedding for the user query as part of the retrieval step. I believe all that it’s doing is just performing a keyword search and not a vector search.

An alternative to this method would be to create a user defined function encapsulated into a toolset during agent creation that implements my RAG architecture with the vector search capability into it but that would just make my code dirty and snatch away the abstraction that the SDK is aimed at providing developers with.

Am i missing something in the documentation or it’s just a feature that’s just not supported by the SDK as of now.

Any help would be highly appreciated!

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Thanks for the feedback! We are routing this to the appropriate team for follow-up. cc @achauhan-scc @kingernupur @luigiw @needuv @paulshealy1 @singankit.