azure-ai-projects: BingGroundingTool source link and citation link are not the same.

[Alphapara97]

• Package Name: Azure AI Projects (azure-ai-projects==1.0.0b9 )
• Package Version: 1.0.0b9
• Operating System: Windows 11 (64 bit)
• Python Version: 3.12.10

Describe the bug
When I set up an agent and provided knowledge grounding using Bing, I included instructions for the agent to search for similar tools online and return links to those tools.

While the agent does return a list of tools along with purchase links, the issue is that the displayed purchase links are invalid. However, the citation/source links provided in the response are correct.

The problem is that the chat displays the incorrect (invalid) purchase links instead of using the actual citation links. This issue occurs both in the Azure AI Agents Playground UI and in the code.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create an agent in the Azure AI foundry, provide instructions to search similar tools.
2. Add grounding with bing in the knowledge
3. search for the tool.

Expected behavior
the chat should display valid purchase links and should be the same as the citation links.

[github-actions]

Thanks for the feedback! We are routing this to the appropriate team for follow-up. cc @dargilco @jhakulin.

[github-actions]

Hi @Alphapara97, I'm an AI Support assistant here to help with your issue. While the Azure SDK team reviews your request, I wanted to provide some possible tips and documentation that might help you in the meantime.

• Verify your implementation against the sample for using the Bing Grounding tool. In our documentation we show initializing the tool with the connection ID (see Create Agent with Bing Grounding).
• The agent response processing supports URL citation annotations to replace placeholders with the actual reference URLs. To get the expected behavior, confirm that your setup for Bing grounding and the agent’s indexing includes the required "title" and "url" fields (as illustrated in the populate references sample).
• The changelog entry for the release containing the BingGroundingTool highlights updates including URL citation parsing (see CHANGELOG).
• Ensure that the connection and tool usage follows the examples provided, as any deviation might impact how the citation links are used for purchase links.

The Azure SDK team will respond to your issue shortly. I hope these suggestions are helpful in the meantime. If this comment helped you, please give it a 👍. If the suggestion was not helpful or incorrect, please give it a 👎. Your feedback helps us improve!

[Alphapara97]

Hi, I’ve been following the documentation and, as a workaround, I’ve been using the citation links as the actual URLs in my application. However, I’ve noticed that these citation links are sometimes unreliable. For example, in repeated test cases, the citation appears as doc_0 instead of a valid URL.