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feat: add Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base tool and context provider

Motivation & Context

Enables Agent Framework agents to retrieve context from Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. This adds RAG capabilities using AWS's managed infrastructure without requiring users to manage their own vector stores or embedding pipelines.

Description & Review Guide

  • What are the major changes?

    • BedrockKnowledgeBaseTool — standalone tool with async run() + get_tool_definition() for agents to call on-demand
    • BedrockKnowledgeBaseProviderContextProvider subclass with before_run() for automatic context injection on every agent invocation
    • Both support managed search (managedSearchConfiguration) and agentic retrieval with fallback
  • What is the impact of these changes?

    • Additive only — new files in python/packages/tools/, no existing code modified
    • Users get two integration patterns: explicit tool calling or automatic context injection
  • What do you want reviewers to focus on?

    • Whether the tool/provider pattern matches the framework's conventions
    • The ContextProvider integration with before_run()

Related Issue

N/A — new feature adding Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base integration.

Contribution Checklist

  • The code builds clean without any errors or warnings
  • All unit tests pass, and I have added new tests where possible
  • The PR follows the Contribution Guidelines
  • This PR is linked to an issue and there is no other open PR for this issue (see Related Issue above).
  • This is not a breaking change.

Testing

  • Tool.run() returned 5 results from live managed KB in us-west-2
  • Provider._retrieve() returned 5 passages
  • _format_context() produced 7399 chars of formatted context
  • SDK requirement: boto3 >= 1.43
  • Microsoft CLA: pre-approved (cla.opensource.microsoft.com)

- Created BedrockKnowledgeBaseTool with async run() + get_tool_definition()
- Created BedrockKnowledgeBaseProvider (ContextProvider subclass) with before_run()
- Two integration points: standalone tool + automatic context injection
- Supports managed search and agentic retrieval with fallback
- Unit tests included
- Added BEDROCK_MANAGED_KB.md design doc
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Pull request overview

Adds Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base retrieval capabilities to the Python tools package, enabling both explicit tool-based retrieval and automatic context injection via a ContextProvider.

Changes:

  • Introduces BedrockKnowledgeBaseTool with async run() + get_tool_definition() for on-demand KB retrieval.
  • Introduces BedrockKnowledgeBaseProvider (ContextProvider.before_run) to inject KB context automatically per agent invocation.
  • Adds a design/usage doc plus unit tests for the new tool/provider.

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File Description
python/packages/tools/agent_framework_tools/bedrock_knowledge_base.py Adds the Bedrock Knowledge Base tool implementation and tool definition metadata.
python/packages/tools/agent_framework_tools/bedrock_knowledge_base_provider.py Adds a context provider that retrieves and injects KB passages before runs.
python/packages/tools/tests/test_bedrock_knowledge_base.py Adds unit tests covering tool retrieval, default config behavior, and provider retrieval.
python/packages/tools/agent_framework_tools/BEDROCK_MANAGED_KB.md Adds documentation describing usage, configuration, and permissions.

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from agent_framework_tools.bedrock_kb import BedrockKnowledgeBaseTool

tool = BedrockKnowledgeBaseTool(
knowledge_base_id="YOUR_KB_ID",
region="us-east-1",
)
results = tool.invoke({"query": "What are the compliance requirements?"})
for result in results:
print(result["content"], result["score"])
| AWS_REGION | AWS region for the KB | us-east-1 |
| AWS_PROFILE | AWS credentials profile | None |
| USE_AGENTIC_RETRIEVAL | Enable agentic retrieval | true |
| MAX_RESULTS | Maximum retrieval results | 5 |
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# Copyright (c) Amazon.com, Inc. All rights reserved.
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"""Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base retrieval tool for Microsoft Agent Framework.
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raise ImportError(
"boto3 is required for Bedrock Knowledge Base tool. "
"Install with: pip install boto3>=1.41.0"
)
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except Exception as e:
logger.error(f"Error retrieving from Bedrock KB: {e}")
return []
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from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
import pytest
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@patch("boto3.client")
def test_run_returns_results(self, mock_boto3):
from agent_framework_tools.bedrock_knowledge_base import BedrockKnowledgeBaseTool
mock_client = MagicMock()
mock_client.retrieve.return_value = {
"retrievalResults": [
{"content": {"text": "Doc"}, "location": {"s3Location": {"uri": "s3://b/d"}}, "score": 0.9},
]
}
mock_boto3.return_value = mock_client
tool = BedrockKnowledgeBaseTool(knowledge_base_id="TEST123")
import asyncio
results = asyncio.run(tool.run(query="test"))
assert len(results) == 1
assert results[0]["content"] == "Doc"
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@patch("boto3.client")
def test_managed_config_default(self, mock_boto3):
from agent_framework_tools.bedrock_knowledge_base import BedrockKnowledgeBaseTool
mock_client = MagicMock()
mock_client.retrieve.return_value = {"retrievalResults": []}
mock_boto3.return_value = mock_client
tool = BedrockKnowledgeBaseTool(knowledge_base_id="TEST123")
import asyncio
asyncio.run(tool.run(query="test"))
call_kwargs = mock_client.retrieve.call_args.kwargs
assert "managedSearchConfiguration" in call_kwargs["retrievalConfiguration"]
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@patch("boto3.client")
def test_retrieve_returns_passages(self, mock_boto3):
from agent_framework_tools.bedrock_knowledge_base_provider import BedrockKnowledgeBaseProvider
mock_client = MagicMock()
mock_client.retrieve.return_value = {
"retrievalResults": [
{"content": {"text": "Context doc"}, "location": {"s3Location": {"uri": "s3://b/c"}}, "score": 0.9},
]
}
mock_boto3.return_value = mock_client
provider = BedrockKnowledgeBaseProvider(knowledge_base_id="TEST123")
import asyncio
passages = asyncio.run(provider._retrieve("test query"))
assert len(passages) == 1
assert passages[0]["content"] == "Context doc"
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