Question

You are building an Azure AI Foundry agent that must answer employee questions using a set of 40 internal PDF policy documents that rarely change. You want the agent to retrieve relevant passages from these documents automatically during a conversation, without building and maintaining your own separate Azure AI Search index or writing custom retrieval code. Which approach should you use to give the agent access to these documents?

Accepted Answer

Configure the File Search tool on the agent and upload the PDFs to a managed vector store that the tool queries automatically.

Answer

Register a custom function tool that calls an external embeddings API and returns matching text for every user turn.

Answer

Paste the full text of all 40 PDFs into the agent's system instructions so the content is always in context.

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Enable the Code Interpreter tool and instruct the agent to parse the uploaded PDFs on each request.