General questions regarding Azure Ai Agents

[lovedeepatsgit]

I have tried Azure Ai Agents as mentioned in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/frameworks/agent/azure-ai-agent?pivots=programming-language-csharp. I have few questions regarding this as follows:

1. If a have used vector store which are temporary and set to expire for 1 day, but where they will get stored for that period of time ( 1 day in my case), does Azure Ai Search service is used in this which is linked to my Azure Ai Foundary, or stored somewhere else?
2. If i have created an Azure Ai Agent with File Explore Tool using Semantic Kernel and Azure Ai Foundary, how I can provide files to that existing agent, according to me files can only be sent during creation of agent?

If anyone have some insights regarding this please share.

[moonbox3]

@lovedeepatsgit

1. This is a server-side vector store managed by Microsoft: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/agents/how-to/tools/file-search?tabs=python&pivots=overview
2. The handle to the vector store is provided when the AzureAIAgent is created. You can add new files to the specified vector store at any time, to allow the agent to utilize that knowledge during invocation. In this sample you can see a file is uploaded to a newly created vector store. The vector store is provided during agent creation. Later, during subsequent invocations, you can provide a new file upload to the same vector store:

   semantic-kernel/dotnet/samples/GettingStartedWithAgents/AzureAIAgent/Step05_AzureAIAgent_FileSearch.cs

   Line 16 in e936f93

   public async Task UseFileSearchToolWithAgentAsync()

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[lovedeepatsgit]

Thanks a Lot @moonbox3 for your clarification, but as you have said that "You can add new files to the specified vector store at any time", but in the sample provided here (

semantic-kernel/dotnet/samples/GettingStartedWithAgents/AzureAIAgent/Step05_AzureAIAgent_FileSearch.cs

Line 16 in e936f93

public async Task UseFileSearchToolWithAgentAsync()

), the files are provided first then the Vector store is created, and then the reference of that vector store is provided to the agent. I want to exactly know, I followed these same steps, and I want to add more files that same vector store, how i can achieve that, because I have not understand where solution to this issue lies in the sample.