Microsoft Discovery documentation

Microsoft Discovery is an extensible platform that brings together agentic orchestration, advanced reasoning, a graph-based knowledge foundation, and high-performance computing for scientific research and R&D workflows. These articles cover the Microsoft Discovery enterprise platform unless otherwise noted, visit GitHub for app-specific guidance.

• Microsoft Discovery Documentation
• Overview
  • What is Microsoft Discovery?
  • Microsoft Discovery & the Microsoft Discovery app
  • Service architecture overview
  • Key scenarios
  • Microsoft Discovery Studio
• Quickstarts
  • Quickstart - Deploy infrastructure portal or Bicep
  • Quickstart - First set of Agent and investigation
• Plan and prepare
  • Onboarding prerequisites
    • Resource provider registration
    • Role assignments
    • Assign persona roles with a PowerShell script
    • Resource Naming
  • Infrastructure building blocks
    • Virtual Networks and Subnets
    • Azure Container Registry
    • Azure Blob Storage Account
    • Managed identities
    • Quota reservations
• Concepts
  • Data & Knowledge
    • Bookshelf & Knowledge Bases
    • Storage containers and storage assets
  • Network Security & Data Protection
    • Network security
    • Data encryption at rest
  • Projects & Investigations
    • Projects and Investigations
    • Project-level access control
    • GitHub Copilot & Microsoft Discovery
  • Agents
    • Discovery Agent concepts
    • Discovery Agent types
  • Tools & Models
    • Discovery Supercomputer and model execution
    • Tools and model integration
  • Discovery Engine
    • Discovery Engine overview
    • Cognition overview
    • Tasks and investigations
    • Files and storage assets
    • Trust relationship and basic investigation patterns
    • Advanced investigation patterns
  • Responsible AI
    • Responsible AI in Microsoft Discovery
    • Platform card
    • Code of conduct
• How-tos
  • Identity & Access
    • Configure project-level access
    • Assign persona roles with a PowerShell script
    • Configure managed identities
  • Supercomputer & Workspace Management
    • Manage Supercomputer & Nodepools
    • Manage Supercomputer using REST APIs
    • Run and manage jobs on Supercomputer using REST APIs
    • Configure secure networking for Supercomputer
    • Plan network security groups for a Microsoft Discovery Supercomputer
    • Manage Workspaces
    • Delete Discovery resources
  • Agents
    • Create agents
    • Select models for agents
    • Write effective prompts for agents
    • Data handling with tools and agents
  • Data & Knowledge
    • Manage storage containers
    • Create Bookshelf and index a Knowledgebase
  • Network Security & Data Protection
    • Configure network security
    • End-to-end network-hardened deployment
    • Configure customer-managed keys
  • Investigations & Discovery Mode
    • Build investigations with cognition
    • Task addition and execution
    • Debug task execution
    • Use GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Discovery
  • Tools
    • Plan tool requirements
    • Create a tool definition
    • Create a Dockerfile for a tool
    • Write action scripts for a tool
    • Publish a tool to Azure Container Registry
    • Deploy a tool to Microsoft Discovery
  • Observability
    • Access resource logs
    • View activity logs
    • Enable audit logging
    • Query workspace logs
    • Query CogLoop logs
    • Query Supercomputer logs
    • Query Bookshelf indexing logs
    • Query Bookshelf query logs
    • Get operation correlation ID from Activity Log
• Operate & Support
  • Observability overview
  • Billing overview
  • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Tutorials
  • Tutorials & how-to videos
  • Tutorial: Discovery Mode
• Reference
  • REST API
  • .NET SDKs
  • Java SDKs
  • JavaScript SDKs
  • Python SDKs
  • FAQ