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 shared session

Tutorial

• Tutorials & how-to videos
• Run a shared session with Discovery Engine

Plan and prepare

Concept

• Deployment planning and path choices
• Quota and capacity requirements
• Role assignments
• Virtual networks and subnets

Reference

• Resource naming rules

How-To Guide

• Register resource providers

Use the onboarding tool

How-To Guide

• Set up the onboarding tool
• Preview onboarding changes offline
• Validate deployment readiness
• Deploy with the onboarding tool

Agents

Concept

• Discovery Agent concepts
• Discovery Agent types
• Agent catalog

How-To Guide

• Create agents
• Select models for agents

Projects and shared sessions

Concept

• Projects and shared sessions
• Discovery Engine overview
• Cognition overview
• Tasks and shared sessions

How-To Guide

• Build shared sessions with cognition
• Add and manage tasks

Tools

Concept

• Tools and model integration

How-To Guide

• Plan tool requirements
• Create a Dockerfile for a tool
• Publish a tool to Azure Container Registry
• Create a tool definition
• Deploy a tool to Microsoft Discovery

Data and knowledge

Concept

• Storage containers and storage assets
• Files and task data inheritance
• Bookshelf and knowledge bases

How-To Guide

• Manage storage containers
• Data handling with tools and agents
• Create a Bookshelf and index a knowledge base

Infrastructure and security

Concept

• Discovery Supercomputer and model execution
• Security and compliance overview
• Billing and costs
• Business continuity and disaster recovery

How-To Guide

• Manage workspaces
• Configure customer-managed keys

Monitoring

Concept

• Observability overview

How-To Guide

• Access resource logs
• View activity logs
• Query Discovery Engine (CogLoop) logs

Troubleshoot

How-To Guide

• Troubleshoot general issues
• Known issues

Reference

• Error codes

Reference

Reference

• REST API
• Resource naming rules
• .NET SDKs
• Frequently asked questions