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.

About Microsoft Discovery

Overview

• What is Microsoft Discovery?
• Key scenarios
• Microsoft Discovery and the Microsoft Discovery app
• Microsoft Discovery app GitHub
• Service architecture overview

Get started

Quickstart

• Deploy Microsoft Discovery infrastructure
• Run your first agent and investigation

Agents and investigations

Concept

• Discovery Agent concepts
• Discovery Agent types

How-To Guide

• Create agents
• Select models for agents
• Write effective prompts for agents
• Data handling with tools and agents

Discovery Engine

Concept

• Discovery Engine overview
• Cognition overview
• Tasks and investigations
• Advanced investigation patterns

How-To Guide

• Build investigations with cognition

Data and knowledge

Concept

• Bookshelf and Knowledge Bases
• Storage containers and storage assets

How-To Guide

• Manage storage containers
• Create and index a Bookshelf Knowledge Base

Security and compliance

Overview

• Security and compliance overview

Concept

• Compliance guidance
• Role assignments
• Project-level access control
• Network security overview
• Data encryption at rest

How-To Guide

• Configure project-level access
• Configure network security
• End-to-end network-hardened deployment
• Configure customer-managed keys

Reference

• SIG-based security and compliance FAQ

Billing and reference

Concept

• Billing overview

Reference

• REST API
• Frequently asked questions

Tutorials

Tutorial

• Tutorials & how-to videos