# connect-prompt-sdk-fallback

A fallback subagent that connects Azure AI agents to knowledge bases via Python SDK when Foundry MCP is unavailable. It plans bindings and requires manual approval before resource creation.

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- Author: Microsoft
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/HEAD/.github/plugins/foundry-iq-skills/skills/foundry-iq/agents/connect-prompt-sdk-fallback.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/agents/connect-prompt-sdk-fallback

## What it does

This subagent acts as an alternate route when Foundry MCP lacks connection and version operations. It requires pre-release packages `azure-ai-projects` (>=2.4.0, <3) and `azure-identity` (>=1.25.0, <2). Authentication relies strictly on an active Azure CLI session via `AzureCliCredential`, so a missing `az login` blocks execution noninteractively.

Operations are split into distinct stages. Running `helpers/prompt_connect.py` with `--plan` evaluates context and writes `request.json` without modifying Azure resources. Applying changes requires approving the generated envelope and passing it to `--input`. Deletion tasks are isolated inside `helpers/prompt_cleanup.py` under separate approval rules.

## Requirements
- Works with: Azure

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add microsoft/skills
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install foundry-iq-skills@skills
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.claude/agents/connect-prompt-sdk-fallback.md` — For all projects use ~/.claude/agents/. Claude delegates by the description field or an @-mention

### Codex

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.codex/agents/connect-prompt-sdk-fallback.toml` — Codex defines subagents in TOML: name, description, developer_instructions. Move the Markdown text into developer_instructions by hand. For all projects use ~/.codex/agents/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/agents/connect-prompt-sdk-fallback.md` — Cursor also reads .claude/agents/

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/HEAD/.github/plugins/foundry-iq-skills/skills/foundry-iq/agents/connect-prompt-sdk-fallback.md

## When to use it
- connect Azure AI agents to knowledge bases via Python SDK without MCP
- generate and inspect ARM connection plans before triggering writes
- enforce evidence-only grounding instructions for knowledge base queries
- clean up created agent versions and endpoints with verification receipts

## Example prompts
- Plan knowledge base binding using request.json via connect-prompt-sdk-fallback
- Apply the approved connection envelope with helpers/prompt_connect.py
- Run helpers/prompt_cleanup.py to remove the test agent version and endpoint

## Source text · connect-prompt-sdk-fallback.md · MIT

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````text
# Existing Prompt Agent SDK fallback

Use this fallback only when authenticated Foundry MCP is unavailable
or lacks connection/version operations, never denial/conflict.
Select before planning; require the parent's approved child fingerprint before ARM creation;
do not read policy unless a creation failure implicates it. Unsupported settings block.
Read `helpers/contracts.md`; verify SDK/CLI identity. Install only missing/incompatible dependencies after approval:

```text
python -m pip install --pre "azure-ai-projects>=2.4.0,<3" "azure-identity>=1.25.0,<2"
```

Run `az login` only if unauthenticated. ARM uses signed-in CLI identity;
SDK and shared cleanup loader use `AzureCliCredential`, not environment/MI fallback.
Missing CLI authentication blocks noninteractively, never falls back to another identity.
Keep CLI context unchanged; never silently switch tenant/identity.
SDK errors: safe code/HTTP status/server ID (`x-ms-request-id`, then `request-id`).
Client request IDs are not server provenance; raw exception text is withheld.
Ambiguous creation stays partial with original status/ID even if recovery fails.
Observed matching versions do not prove creation ownership. CLI output separates
`resources_remaining.unverified` from run-owned resources; unknown versions remain unnamed.
`request.json` (resolved intent, not hand-built bodies/hashes):

```json
{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "project_resource_id": "<exact project ARM ID>",
  "project_endpoint": "https://account.services.ai.azure.com/api/projects/project",
  "search_resource_id": "<exact Search ARM ID>",
  "knowledge_base_name": "kb",
  "agent_name": "agent",
  "agent_version": "1",
  "connection_name": "kb-project-mi",
  "is_shared_to_all": false,
  "binding_action": "ensure",
  "role_assignment_id": "<Search ID>/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments/<GUID>",
  "permission_forwarding": {"mode": "not-applicable"},
  "network": {"posture": "public", "evidence": "<verified reachability>"},
  "owner": "<owner>"
}
```

```text
python helpers/prompt_connect.py --plan request.json
```

Use observed choices, never latest. Output: `status: planned`, `approval_summary`,
`execution_input`, `approval.confirmed: false`; no writes/installation/inference.
Read CLI context, exact project/KB/role/connection, selected version and all scoped
version pages including drafts; no account/index/connection enumeration.
Bounds: 1 MiB input/readback/definition, 200 KB sources, 200 agent versions/pages.
At 200 versions, new-version apply/plan blocks before writes; exact reuse remains valid.
Unresolved KB profiles block, never transition the KB. Verify the PROJECT principal's
exact Search Index Data Reader grant; missing roles block, never assign.
Search provisioning/degraded warns only with healthy KB GET;
failed/deleting/disabled or unavailable reads block.

Review names, binding/grounding delta, sharing, principal/scope and preserved state.
Save `execution_input` privately; after consent set `approval.confirmed` true,
without changing plan or fingerprint. Fresh exact reuse:
`execution_required: false`, `mutation_approval_required: false`; stop without approval/apply.
Otherwise:

```text
python helpers/prompt_connect.py --input <approved-envelope.json>
```

Bind project ID/endpoint, agent/version/model/digest, absent/exact ARM connection,
KB MCP endpoint, `allowed_tools: ["knowledge_base_retrieve"]`, `require_approval: "never"`,
role ID/principal/scope, permission forwarding, owner, `cleanup_approved: false`.
`grounding_instructions` binds the exact appended evidence-only text;
old envelopes cannot authorize grounding upgrades.

```text
````
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