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Enterprise-grade accelerator for agentic RAG on Azure. Built on Microsoft Foundry with Foundry IQ as the default retrieval backend, Microsoft Agent Framework orchestration, Zero-Trust architecture and IaC.

Is Azure/GPT-RAG beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, Azure/GPT-RAG merged 43 of 43 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

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1.2k
Forks
323
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
11
Avg merge
1d 3h
Merged PRs (30d)
48
Dominant language
Python
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Sep 25, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 14, 2026
Contributing guide
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
Code of conduct
Beginner labels
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How to contribute to Azure/GPT-RAG

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
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