Building a Microsoft Fabric AI Skill to Generate Data

Sandeep Pawar tries out AI Skills in Microsoft Fabric:

In the last blog I wrote, I showed how to call the AI Skills endpoint in a Fabric notebook. Being able to call the endpoint programmatically creates many opportunities to integrate AI Skills in different applications. One that I thought of was using AI Skills as a function. Function Calling or Tools is a specific use case in Gen AI to create structured output based on a function or behavior instructed by the user. I am not referring to that as AI Skills can only return a table. Instead, what if you created a number of these AI Skills that are grounded in your data with specific functions built to get the intended output? You could serve/share these with end users who can call these functions to generate data/results. Think of these as macros in Excel.

Click through for an example of how it works.