Azure AI Projects Java

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Project management

Example prompts

• “AIProjectClient java”
• “azure ai projects java”
• “Foundry project java”
• “/azure-ai-projects-java”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Use DefaultAzureCredential for production authentication
2. 2Reuse client builder to create multiple sub-clients efficiently
3. 3Handle pagination when listing resources with PagedIterable
4. 4Use environment variables for connection names and configuration
5. 5Check connection types before accessing credentials

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 354361d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are java, xml and bash).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • learn.microsoft.com

  Also links to:

  • github.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Azure AI Projects Java loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 152 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~77

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.4k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~4.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from microsoft/skills at commit 354361d, republished under its MIT licence (© microsoft). 152 words, ~1,380 tokens.

name

azure-ai-projects-java

description

Azure AI Projects SDK for Java. High-level SDK for Azure AI Foundry project management including connections, datasets, indexes, and evaluations. Triggers: "AIProjectClient java", "azure ai projects java", "Foundry project java", "ConnectionsClient", "DatasetsClient", "IndexesClient".

license

MIT

metadata.author

Microsoft

metadata.version

1.0.0

metadata.package

com.azure:azure-ai-projects

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
    <artifactId>azure-ai-projects</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-beta.1</version>
</dependency>

PROJECT_ENDPOINT=https://<resource>.services.ai.azure.com/api/projects/<project> # Required for project configuration
AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=prod  # Required only if DefaultAzureCredential is used in production

import com.azure.ai.projects.AIProjectClientBuilder;
import com.azure.core.credential.TokenCredential;
import com.azure.identity.AzureIdentityEnvVars;
import com.azure.identity.DefaultAzureCredentialBuilder;
import com.azure.identity.ManagedIdentityCredentialBuilder;

TokenCredential credential = new DefaultAzureCredentialBuilder()
    .requireEnvVars(AzureIdentityEnvVars.AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS)
    .build();
// Or use a specific credential directly in production:
// See https://learn.microsoft.com/java/api/overview/azure/identity-readme?view=azure-java-stable#credential-classes
// TokenCredential credential = new ManagedIdentityCredentialBuilder().build();

AIProjectClientBuilder builder = new AIProjectClientBuilder()
    .endpoint(System.getenv("PROJECT_ENDPOINT"))
    .credential(credential);

// Build sub-clients from builder
ConnectionsClient connectionsClient = builder.buildConnectionsClient();
DatasetsClient datasetsClient = builder.buildDatasetsClient();
DeploymentsClient deploymentsClient = builder.buildDeploymentsClient();
IndexesClient indexesClient = builder.buildIndexesClient();
EvaluationsClient evaluationsClient = builder.buildEvaluationsClient();

import com.azure.ai.projects.models.Connection;
import com.azure.core.http.rest.PagedIterable;

PagedIterable<Connection> connections = connectionsClient.listConnections();
for (Connection connection : connections) {
    System.out.println("Name: " + connection.getName());
    System.out.println("Type: " + connection.getType());
    System.out.println("Credential Type: " + connection.getCredentials().getType());
}

indexesClient.listLatest().forEach(index -> {
    System.out.println("Index name: " + index.getName());
    System.out.println("Version: " + index.getVersion());
    System.out.println("Description: " + index.getDescription());
});

import com.azure.ai.projects.models.AzureAISearchIndex;
import com.azure.ai.projects.models.Index;

String indexName = "my-index";
String indexVersion = "1.0";
String searchConnectionName = System.getenv("AI_SEARCH_CONNECTION_NAME");
String searchIndexName = System.getenv("AI_SEARCH_INDEX_NAME");

Index index = indexesClient.createOrUpdate(
    indexName,
    indexVersion,
    new AzureAISearchIndex()
        .setConnectionName(searchConnectionName)
        .setIndexName(searchIndexName)
);

System.out.println("Created index: " + index.getName());

import com.openai.services.EvalService;

EvalService evalService = evaluationsClient.getOpenAIClient();
// Use OpenAI evaluation APIs directly

import com.azure.core.exception.HttpResponseException;
import com.azure.core.exception.ResourceNotFoundException;

try {
    Index index = indexesClient.get(indexName, version);
} catch (ResourceNotFoundException e) {
    System.err.println("Index not found: " + indexName);
} catch (HttpResponseException e) {
    System.err.println("Error: " + e.getResponse().getStatusCode());
}

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in .github/plugins/azure-sdk-java/skills/azure-ai-projects-java of microsoft/skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/examples.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 354361d

Used in 6 other repositories

We found 19 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 6 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in microsoft/skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• aiskillstore/marketplaceskills/sickn33/azure-ai-projects-java
• majiayu000/claude-skill-registryskills/api/azure-ai-projects-javaskills/ai-llm/azure-ai-projects-java+3 more
• sickn33/agentic-awesome-skillsskills/azure-ai-projects-javaplugins/agentic-awesome-skills/skills/azure-ai-projects-java+1 more
• lingxling/awesome-skills-cnantigravity-awesome-skills/skills/azure-ai-projects-javaantigravity-awesome-skills/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills/skills/azure-ai-projects-java+1 more
• benjaminasterA/antigravity-awesome-skillsskills/azure-ai-projects-java
• henryalouf/ruflow.agents/skills/azure-ai-projects-java.agents/skills/antigravity-awesome-skills/skills/azure-ai-projects-java+4 more