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foundryR (development version)

foundryR 0.0.0.9000

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

Core Features

Chat Completions

• foundry_chat() for interacting with LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, Llama, Mistral, etc.)
• Support for system prompts and conversation history
• Compatible with both max_tokens and max_completion_tokens parameters

Text Embeddings

• foundry_embed() for generating text embeddings
• foundry_embed_batch() for parallel batch processing with progress tracking
• foundry_similarity() for computing pairwise cosine similarities
• Support for configurable embedding dimensions

tidymodels Integration

• step_foundry_embed() recipe step for embedding text columns in ML pipelines
• Full compatibility with tidymodels cross-validation and tuning workflows

Content Safety (Responsible AI)

• foundry_moderate() for content moderation across hate, violence, sexual, and self-harm categories
• foundry_groundedness() for hallucination detection in AI responses
• foundry_shield() for prompt injection and jailbreak detection

Image Generation

• foundry_image() for generating images with DALL-E models
• foundry_save_image() for saving generated images locally
• Support for separate image endpoint/key configuration

Configuration & Setup

• foundry_set_key() and foundry_set_endpoint() for credential management
• foundry_check_setup() for validating configuration
• Environment variable support for persistent configuration
• Separate configuration for Content Safety and Image Generation resources

Documentation

• Comprehensive vignettes: Getting Started, Embeddings, Content Safety, Image Generation, tidymodels
• Full roxygen2 documentation for all exported functions
• pkgdown site with Azure-inspired styling