Microsoft Foundry Tools

Microsoft Foundry Tools Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Microsoft Foundry Tools. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. 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), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., security.md), use read_file on the linked reference file

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This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

• Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
• Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

| Category | Lines | Description |

|----------|-------|-------------|

| Troubleshooting | L36-L40 | Troubleshooting steps and FAQs for Content Understanding features, including diagnosing model issues, configuration problems, and resolving common errors in content analysis workflows. |

| Best Practices | L41-L46 | Guidance on improving Content Understanding accuracy, grounding and confidence in document extraction, and migrating from preview to GA Content Understanding APIs. |

| Decision Making | L47-L55 | Guidance for choosing and migrating between Azure AI/Foundry content tools (Content Moderator, Content Safety, Content Understanding), including feature comparisons and pricing/usage planning. |

| Architecture & Design Patterns | L56-L60 | Guidance on choosing and configuring deployment options (serverless, managed, custom) for Content Understanding models, including trade-offs, scalability, and integration patterns. |

| Limits & Quotas | L61-L68 | Quotas, limits, and supported languages for Content Moderator image/list APIs and Content Understanding, plus .NET samples showing how to stay within list and usage limits. |

| Security | L69-L73 | Securing Azure Content Understanding analyzers and data: auth options, network isolation, encryption, access control, and best practices for protecting analyzer inputs/outputs. |

| Configuration | L74-L83 | Configuring and customizing Content Understanding analyzers (prebuilt and custom), document layout, face detection, and cross-resource capacity settings. |

| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L84-L98 | Using Content Moderator and Content Understanding via REST/.NET: text/image/video moderation, term lists, multimodal analysis, and consuming Markdown/structured outputs |

Troubleshooting

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Troubleshoot and answer FAQs for Content Understanding | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/faq |

Best Practices

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Apply best practices for Content Understanding accuracy | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/concepts/best-practices |

| Improve document extraction with confidence and grounding | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/document/analyzer-improvement |

Decision Making

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Migrate Azure Content Moderator workloads to Content Safety | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-moderator/content-moderator |

| Choose Azure AI tools for document processing | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/choosing-right-ai-tool |

| Choose between Foundry and Content Understanding Studio features | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/foundry-vs-content-understanding-studio |

| Migrate Content Understanding from preview to GA APIs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/how-to/migration-preview-to-ga |

| Estimate and plan Content Understanding pricing | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/pricing-explainer |

Architecture & Design Patterns

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Select model deployment options for Content Understanding | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/concepts/models-deployments |

Limits & Quotas

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Use Content Moderator image lists within quota limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-moderator/image-lists-quickstart-dotnet |

| Use supported languages in Content Moderator API | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-moderator/language-support |

| Apply Content Moderator .NET samples with list limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-moderator/samples-dotnet |

| Content Understanding service quotas and limits reference | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/service-limits |

Security

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Secure Azure Content Understanding analyzers and data | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/concepts/secure-communications |

Configuration

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Configure and reference analyzers in Azure Content Understanding | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/concepts/analyzer-reference |

| Use and customize Content Understanding prebuilt analyzers | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/concepts/prebuilt-analyzers |

| Configure document layout analysis with Content Understanding | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/document/elements |

| Configure face detection and recognition in Content Understanding | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/face/overview |

| Configure cross-resource capacity for Content Understanding | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/how-to/bring-your-own-cross-resource-capacity |

| Build and refine custom analyzers in Content Understanding Studio | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/how-to/customize-analyzer-content-understanding-studio |

Integrations & Coding Patterns

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Content Moderator REST API operations reference | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-moderator/api-reference |

| Integrate Content Moderator via .NET client library | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-moderator/client-libraries |

| Call Content Moderator image moderation APIs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-moderator/image-moderation-api |

| Call Content Moderator REST APIs from C# samples | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-moderator/samples-rest |

| Use .NET SDK term lists with Content Moderator | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-moderator/term-lists-quickstart-dotnet |

| Use Content Moderator text moderation APIs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-moderator/text-moderation-api |

| Moderate video content using Content Moderator .NET SDK | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-moderator/video-moderation-api |

| Consume Content Understanding document Markdown output | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/document/markdown |

| Call Content Understanding REST API for multimodal data | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/quickstart/use-rest-api |

| Create custom Content Understanding analyzers via REST API | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/tutorial/create-custom-analyzer |

| Extract structured audiovisual content with Content Understanding | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/video/elements |

| Use audiovisual Markdown output from Content Understanding | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/content-understanding/video/markdown |