AI Foundry SDK - Persistent Agents Library

[jayantjha]

Description

Introducing Azure AI Agents Library for AI Foundry SDK

This PR introduces the first version of the Azure AI Agents client library for Java (azure-ai-agents-persistent). This is an initial beta release (1.0.0-beta.1) that provides Java developers with programmatic access to Azure AI Foundry agents. Typespec for the initial SDK can be found here

What's included

• Initial implementation of core functionality for AI foundry agents

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• The pull request does not introduce [breaking changes]
• CHANGELOG is updated for new features, bug fixes or other significant changes.
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Pull Request Overview

This PR introduces the initial beta version (1.0.0-beta.1) of the Azure AI Agents client library for Java, enabling programmatic access to persistent agents with file upload/download, vector store file management, and run steps operations.

• Added core service clients (Files, VectorStoreFiles, RunSteps) and both synchronous and asynchronous implementations.
• Introduced helper classes for multipart/form-data operations and updated relevant project metadata, documentation, changelog, and versioning files.

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File	Description
MultipartFormDataHelper.java	Implements multipart/form-data serialization methods.
VectorStoreFilesClient.java	Provides APIs for managing vector store file operations.
RunStepsClient.java	Synchronous client for executing run step operations.
RunStepsAsyncClient.java	Asynchronous client for executing run step operations.
FilesClient.java	Synchronous client for file operations utilizing multipart helper.
FilesAsyncClient.java	Asynchronous client for file operations.
AgentsServiceVersion.java	Defines and manages service versioning.
pom.xml, assets.json, README.md, CHANGELOG.md, version_client.txt, .vscode/cspell.json	Update and add project metadata, assets, documentation, and versioning details.