Features Reference
Use this page as an operator-focused map of Simple Chat capabilities, service dependencies, and the docs that go deeper on each area.
The main features page is the broad product tour. This reference page is the faster operator map for people who need to connect a capability to the Azure services, admin settings, and user workflows behind it.
Conversation surface
Core chat includes model selection, grounded responses, citations, exports, history, and optional multimedia or image-generation extensions.
Workspace ingestion
Personal, group, and public workspaces add uploads, extraction, chunking, indexing, metadata, and optional classification across shared document sets.
Governance and safety
Admins can control content safety, archiving, feedback, access roles, API documentation visibility, and advanced feature exposure from one settings surface.
Agents and integrations
Optional Semantic Kernel agents, actions, OpenAPI plugins, SQL workflows, and external application helpers let teams move beyond plain chat into automation.
Use the narrative page and the reference page differently
Start with Features when you want the user-facing tour. Switch to this page when you are mapping a requirement to configuration, dependencies, or adjacent docs.
Feature map by operating area
| Area | What it covers | Common dependencies |
|---|---|---|
| Chat and model routing | Conversations, grounded answers, citations, export, streaming, optional image generation | Azure OpenAI, optional Content Safety |
| Workspaces and documents | Uploads, extraction, embeddings, search, classification, multimedia processing | Azure AI Search, embeddings, Document Intelligence, optional Speech and Video Indexer |
| Citations and previews | Standard citations, enhanced previews, storage-backed source rendering | Azure Storage for enhanced citations |
| Governance and operations | RBAC, logging, feedback, archiving, API docs visibility, scaling controls | Admin Settings, App Service, Application Insights |
| Agents and actions | Semantic Kernel agents, OpenAPI actions, SQL integrations, workspace-scoped automation | Agent/action enablement, plugin configuration, model endpoints |
Where to go deeper
Admin settings
Use the admin reference when you need to turn a capability on and verify which toggles or service tests control it.
Workflows
Use the workflow guide when you want to understand how uploads, safety review, and retrieval-backed chat behave behind the UI.
Latest release changes
Use the latest-release section when you need the most recent UI and capability changes rather than the long-lived platform map.
Tutorials and how-to guides
Use tutorials for onboarding and the how-to guides for repeatable operational workflows once the platform is already running.