Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

foundryR 0.1.0

Initial CRAN release of foundryR, a tidy interface to Microsoft Azure AI Foundry.

New features

• Added Agent Service support for named, versioned prompt agents with foundry_agent_create(), foundry_agents(), foundry_agent_get(), foundry_agent_delete(), and foundry_agent_versions(), plus a new agent argument on foundry_response() (backed by foundry_agent_reference()) that runs a stored agent by name through the project-scoped Responses endpoint (roadmap 2026 H2).
• Added Content Safety image moderation, protected-material detection, and text blocklist helpers with foundry_moderate_image(), foundry_protected_material(), foundry_blocklists(), and related blocklist item functions (roadmap 2026 H2).
• Added cloud evaluation workflows with grader constructors (foundry_grader_string_check(), foundry_grader_text_similarity(), foundry_grader_label_model(), foundry_grader_score_model(), and foundry_grader_azure_ai() for builtin.* evaluators), evaluation and run lifecycle functions (foundry_eval_create(), foundry_evals(), foundry_eval_get(), foundry_eval_delete(), foundry_eval_run_create(), foundry_eval_runs(), foundry_eval_run_get(), foundry_eval_run_cancel()), and foundry_eval_run_output_items(), which returns per-row grader scores as a tibble (roadmap 2026 H2).
• Added preview Content Safety operations: foundry_protected_code() for protected-material-in-code detection, foundry_moderate_multimodal() for image-with-text moderation, and foundry_task_adherence() (with foundry_agent_tool(), foundry_agent_tool_call(), and foundry_agent_message() builders) for agent task-adherence checks (roadmap 2026 H2).
• Added Responses API conversation and vector store helpers, including foundry_conversation_create(), foundry_conversations(), foundry_vector_store_create(), foundry_vector_search(), and foundry_tool_file_search() (roadmap 2026 H2).
• Added foundry_codebook() and codebook_diff() for versioned measurement-layer codebooks with deterministic SHA-256 hashes, schema helper wrappers, print output, and codebook diffs (measurement layer M1).
• Added schema constructors with foundry_schema(), schema_string(), schema_enum(), schema_number(), schema_integer(), schema_boolean(), schema_array(), schema_object(), and as_foundry_schema() for strict structured-output schemas (roadmap 2026 H2).
• Added validation helpers foundry_agreement(), foundry_consistency(), and foundry_provenance() for publication-oriented annotation checks and reproducibility metadata (roadmap 2026 H2).
• Added v1 Batch API workflows with foundry_batch_create(), foundry_batches(), foundry_batch_get(), foundry_batch_cancel(), and foundry_batch_requests() for large-scale prompt, annotation, extraction, and classification jobs.
• Added v1 Files API support with foundry_file_upload(), foundry_files(), foundry_file_get(), foundry_file_delete(), and foundry_file_download() for Batch, eval, fine-tuning, and file-search workflows.
• Added foundry_agent() and foundry_tool() for a bounded Responses API function-calling loop with user-defined R tools.
• Added foundry_batch_results(), foundry_batch_wait(), foundry_extract_batch(), and foundry_usage() to complete the batch annotation loop from JSONL requests through parsed tibble results and user-supplied cost summaries (roadmap 2026 H2).
• Added foundry_image_edit() for v1 preview image editing with local image and optional mask uploads.
• Added foundry_response_cancel() and foundry_response_input_items() for background Responses API workflows and response introspection (roadmap 2026 H2).
• Added foundry_set_project_endpoint(), foundry_get_project_endpoint(), foundry_set_token_provider(), and foundry_token_azure_cli() for project-scoped APIs and refreshable Microsoft Entra authentication (roadmap 2026 H2).
• Added foundry_token_azure_identity(), a refreshable Microsoft Entra ID token provider backed by that supports service principals, managed identity, and interactive or device-code flows (roadmap 2026 H2).
• Added foundry_set_speech_endpoint(), foundry_set_speech_key(), foundry_transcribe(), and foundry_translate_audio() for LLM Speech and MAI-Transcribe workflows.
• Added foundry_set_token() for Microsoft Entra ID bearer-token authentication across Foundry requests.
• Added foundry_speak() for v1 preview text-to-speech output saved to local audio files.
• Added foundry_cache_clear() to remove embeddings cached on disk by step_foundry_embed(cache = "disk") (roadmap 2026 H2).
• Added foundry_video_job_create(), foundry_video_jobs(), foundry_video_job_get(), foundry_video_job_delete(), foundry_video_get(), and foundry_video_download() for preview video job management and content downloads.

Improvements

• foundry_groundedness() now supports the Content Safety correction feature via correction = TRUE with a bring-your-own Azure OpenAI deployment described by the new foundry_llm_resource(), returning a correction_text column, and surfaces per-segment ungrounded_reasons when reasoning = TRUE (roadmap 2026 H2).

• as_foundry_schema() now converts ellmer::type_object() specifications to strict JSON Schema, so ellmer users can reuse existing type definitions in foundry_extract() and foundry_response() (roadmap 2026 H2).

• foundry_agreement() now reports Krippendorff’s alpha alongside Cohen’s and Fleiss’ kappa, using when installed and a base-R nominal fallback otherwise (roadmap 2026 H2).

• foundry_chat() now accepts reasoning_effort and returns reasoning_tokens and cached_input_tokens when chat-completions responses report those fields.

• foundry_chat() now defaults to the /openai/v1/chat/completions endpoint while keeping api = "deployment" as a legacy escape hatch (roadmap 2026 H2).

• foundry_embed() now uses the /openai/v1/embeddings array endpoint by default, returns row-level .error and .error_msg fields, and keeps api = "deployment" as a legacy escape hatch (roadmap 2026 H2).

• foundry_extract() now accepts data frames with text_col, preserves original columns, runs requests in parallel, and returns parse or HTTP failures as .error rows instead of aborting the whole job (roadmap 2026 H2).

• foundry_image() now uses the v1 preview image generation endpoint by default, supports newer image options such as output_format, output_compression, background, and moderation, and keeps the legacy deployment endpoint available with api = "deployment".

• foundry_moderate() now supports Content Safety blocklists and keeps raw response payloads in list-columns (roadmap 2026 H2).

• foundry_models() now calls the v1 model and deployment metadata endpoints instead of sending a dummy chat request.

• foundry_response() now accepts background, conversation, prompt-cache, parallel-tool-call, max-tool-call, safety-identifier, and reasoning-summary controls from the v1 Responses API (roadmap 2026 H2).

• foundry_response() accepts foundry_tool() objects in tools, strips local R function references from request bodies, and returns cached_input_tokens when the Responses API reports cached input tokens.

• foundry_similarity() now computes all pairwise cosine similarities with a single vectorized matrix product, supports top_k, and can return a similarity matrix with as_matrix = TRUE (roadmap 2026 H2).

• step_foundry_embed() now supports cache = "disk" with an optional cache_dir to persist embeddings across bakes, and builds embedding columns from a single matrix instead of a per-cell fill loop (roadmap 2026 H2).

• foundry_transcribe(), foundry_translate_audio(), and foundry_speak() now accept api = "deployment" to reach OpenAI audio models through the /openai/deployments/{model}/... path, so a whisper transcription or translation deployment works alongside the default v1 data-plane path.

Documentation and package metadata

• Documentation now positions foundryR around Azure AI Content Safety, Responses API workflows, strict extraction, embeddings, batch jobs, and research annotation workflows, with chat completions kept as a maintained convenience layer.
• The README, vignettes, and website articles now show real Azure AI Foundry output. Each documentation page runs once against live resources with data-raw/record-doc-outputs.R, which captures every API response as a sanitized fixture; all later builds (R CMD check, pkgdown, CRAN, CI) replay those fixtures and render the real tibbles, images, and audio with no credentials and no network calls. When fixtures are absent the API chunks simply do not evaluate, so nothing is fabricated.
• Added an onet2r integration as a website-only pkgdown article that pulls real occupation data from O*NET, embeds it with foundry_embed(), ranks occupations by semantic similarity, and summarizes the top match with foundry_chat(); the redactor now strips the O*NET X-API-Key header so its fixtures carry no secrets.
• Media helpers are grouped as experimental media while the core research surface is documented separately.
• Media documentation now uses one image and video generation vignette instead of separate overlapping image and media articles.
• New vignettes compare foundryR with ellmer and show an end-to-end annotation workflow.
• License metadata now uses a single MIT license file so GitHub reports one license.