Microsoft’s Agent Framework treats retrieval as a first‑class capability so agents can fetch only what they need (or always fetch), attach source metadata, and call search as a tool during reasoning. The result: more efficient, auditable, and controllable Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) for production assistants.

tl;drMicrosoft Agent Framework implements RAG via TextSearchProvider (an AIContextProvider) and a Semantic Kernel bridge to many vector stores.Two retrieval modes: ...