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azure-ai-projects-py

AI Foundry project client and agents

Developer Setup

Setup & Installation

bash

npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/skills --skill azure-ai-projects-py

npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/skills --skill azure-ai-projects-py

Or paste this URL into your assistant to install:

https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/main/.github/plugins/azure-sdk-python/skills/azure-ai-projects-py View on GitHub

Overview

What This Skill Does

Python SDK for building AI applications on Microsoft Azure Foundry. Wraps agent creation, thread management, evaluations, connections, deployments, datasets, and indexes under a single `AIProjectClient`. Also provides an OpenAI-compatible client for projects that use standard OpenAI API patterns.

Application

When to use this Skill

Configuring integration settings for custom agent workflows.
Optimizing query execution and response latency in production.
Developing clean, standard-compliant implementations for enterprise services.
Troubleshooting connection timeouts and authentication handshakes.
Monitoring API rate limits and execution pipelines programmatically.

Documentation

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Azure AI Projects Python SDK (Foundry SDK)

Build AI applications on Microsoft Foundry using the azure-ai-projects SDK.

Installation

pip install azure-ai-projects azure-identity

Environment Variables

AZURE_AI_PROJECT_ENDPOINT="https://<resource>.services.ai.azure.com/api/projects/<project>"  # Required for all auth methods
AZURE_AI_MODEL_DEPLOYMENT_NAME="gpt-4o-mini"  # Required for all auth methods
AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=prod # Required only if DefaultAzureCredential is used in production

Authentication & Lifecycle

🔑 Two rules apply to every code sample below:

Prefer DefaultAzureCredential. It works locally (Azure CLI / VS Code / Developer CLI) and in Azure (managed identity, workload identity) with no code change. Avoid connection strings, account/API keys — they bypass Entra audit and rotation.

Local dev: DefaultAzureCredential works as-is.

Production: set AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=prod (or AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=<specific_credential>) to constrain the credential chain to production-safe credentials.

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