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Zero-Access Agent

Give the AI the reports, never the systems. An architecture for answering questions about an endpoint fleet with an AI agent that holds no access to any live system. Scheduled read-only jobs export sanitized, pre-aggregated snapshots; the agent answers only from those.

Build it yourself Source on GitHub

The pattern, in one screen

  1. Source — Intune / Entra. read-only (.Read.All) via Managed Identity; the AI never touches it.
  2. Collect — scheduled Azure Automation runbooks pull read-only from Graph and pre-aggregate into slim CSV snapshots.
  3. Store — Azure Blob: full CSVs for Power BI, slim snapshots for the agent.
  4. Retrieve — Azure AI Search over the snapshots, RBAC read-only.
  5. Answer — an Azure AI Foundry agent that holds no scopes and no keys, and answers only from the index.

It trades freshness for containment — snapshots are as current as the last run, not live. That trade is the whole point.

The ten collectors

Each is a real read-only runbook, and each pairs with a script page and a Power BI report in the library.

Inventory — All DevicesFull managed-device inventory across the fleet — the backbone dataset every other report leans on. Intune DocumentationSnapshots your Intune configuration — profiles, policies and settings — as documentation you can diff over time. Policy AssignmentsResolves which policies land on which groups, so 'why did this device get that setting?' has an answer. Device HygieneCompliance, encryption, stale check-ins and the small signals that separate a healthy fleet from a drifting one. App Deployment FailuresSurfaces app installs that failed and where, so remediation targets the real devices, not the whole ring. License ComplianceMaps assigned vs consumed licences across the tenant — the report finance and IT both ask for. Windows 11 ReadinessHardware-readiness across the estate — TPM, CPU, RAM — so the Windows 11 plan is grounded in data. Autopilot OperationsAutopilot registrations, profiles and deployment health — the enrolment funnel, made visible. Local AI Agent InventoryInventories local AI-agent tooling across managed devices — a modern-workspace signal most fleets can't see yet. Non-Compliant DevicesEvery non-compliant Windows device and the exact settings that failed — the flagship report.

Start with the walkthrough

  • Build it yourself — empty subscription to read-only runbooks + a Power BI report.
  • Collection layer setup — the Automation Account, Managed Identity, read-only Graph roles.
  • Enrichment tool — the one optional, human-run utility that can write. Fenced, opt-in, named openly.

One honest exception

The read-only guarantee covers the collection → agent path. The repo ships one optional, human-run enrichment utility that can write device warranty into Notes. It's fenced off, opt-in, defaults to a read-only report — and named openly rather than hidden.