Python: [BREAKING] Simplify API: ChatAgent -> Agent, ChatMessage -> Message (#3747)

* [BREAKING] Rename ChatAgent -> Agent, ChatMessage -> Message, ChatClientProtocol -> SupportsChatGetResponse

Simplify the public API by removing redundant 'Chat' prefix from core types:
- ChatAgent -> Agent
- RawChatAgent -> RawAgent
- ChatMessage -> Message
- ChatClientProtocol -> SupportsChatGetResponse

Also renamed internal WorkflowMessage (was Message in _runner_context) to avoid collision.

No backward compatibility aliases - this is a clean breaking change.

* [BREAKING] Rename Agent chat_client parameter to client

* Fix rebase issues: WorkflowMessage references and broken markdown links

* Fix formatting and lint issues from code quality checks

* Fix import ordering in workflow sample files

* fixed rebase

* Fix test failures: use WorkflowMessage and A2AMessage after ChatMessage→Message rename

- Replace Message(data=..., source_id=...) with WorkflowMessage(...) in workflow tests
- Fix isinstance check in A2A agent to use A2AMessage instead of Message
- Fix import in test_workflow_observability.py (Message→WorkflowMessage)

* Fix lint, fmt, and sample errors after ChatMessage→Message rename

- Auto-fix 70+ ruff lint issues across samples (ChatMessage→Message refs)
- Fix HostedVectorStoreContent→Content.from_hosted_vector_store in file search sample
- Fix _normalize_messages→normalize_messages in custom agent sample
- Fix context.terminate→raise MiddlewareTermination in middleware samples
- Fix with_update_hook→with_transform_hook in override middleware sample
- Add TOptions_co import back to custom_chat_client sample
- Add noqa for FastAPI File() default in chatkit sample
- Fix B023 loop variable capture in weather agent sample

* fix: update Agent constructor calls from chat_client to client in declaration-only tool tests

* fix: add register_cleanup to devui lazy-loading proxy and type stub

* fixed tests and updated new pieces

* fix agui typevar

* fix merge errors

* fix merge conflicts

* fiux merge

* Remove unused links

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Co-authored-by: Evan Mattson <evan.mattson@microsoft.com>
This commit is contained in:
Eduard van Valkenburg
2026-02-11 00:04:32 +01:00
committed by GitHub
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parent a4c9e43afb
commit 0521f5bed8
418 changed files with 5385 additions and 5389 deletions
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ from agent_framework import (
AgentResponseUpdate,
AgentThread,
BaseAgent,
ChatMessage,
Content,
ContextProvider,
Message,
ResponseStream,
normalize_messages,
)
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ class GitHubCopilotAgent(BaseAgent, Generic[OptionsT]):
@overload
def run(
self,
messages: str | ChatMessage | Sequence[str | ChatMessage] | None = None,
messages: str | Message | Sequence[str | Message] | None = None,
*,
stream: Literal[False] = False,
thread: AgentThread | None = None,
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ class GitHubCopilotAgent(BaseAgent, Generic[OptionsT]):
@overload
def run(
self,
messages: str | ChatMessage | Sequence[str | ChatMessage] | None = None,
messages: str | Message | Sequence[str | Message] | None = None,
*,
stream: Literal[True],
thread: AgentThread | None = None,
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ class GitHubCopilotAgent(BaseAgent, Generic[OptionsT]):
def run(
self,
messages: str | ChatMessage | Sequence[str | ChatMessage] | None = None,
messages: str | Message | Sequence[str | Message] | None = None,
*,
stream: bool = False,
thread: AgentThread | None = None,
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ class GitHubCopilotAgent(BaseAgent, Generic[OptionsT]):
async def _run_impl(
self,
messages: str | ChatMessage | Sequence[str | ChatMessage] | None = None,
messages: str | Message | Sequence[str | Message] | None = None,
*,
thread: AgentThread | None = None,
options: OptionsT | None = None,
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ class GitHubCopilotAgent(BaseAgent, Generic[OptionsT]):
except Exception as ex:
raise ServiceException(f"GitHub Copilot request failed: {ex}") from ex
response_messages: list[ChatMessage] = []
response_messages: list[Message] = []
response_id: str | None = None
# send_and_wait returns only the final ASSISTANT_MESSAGE event;
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ class GitHubCopilotAgent(BaseAgent, Generic[OptionsT]):
if response_event.data.content:
response_messages.append(
ChatMessage(
Message(
role="assistant",
contents=[Content.from_text(response_event.data.content)],
message_id=message_id,
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ class GitHubCopilotAgent(BaseAgent, Generic[OptionsT]):
async def _stream_updates(
self,
messages: str | ChatMessage | Sequence[str | ChatMessage] | None = None,
messages: str | Message | Sequence[str | Message] | None = None,
*,
thread: AgentThread | None = None,
options: OptionsT | None = None,
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ from agent_framework import (
AgentResponse,
AgentResponseUpdate,
AgentThread,
ChatMessage,
Content,
Message,
)
from agent_framework.exceptions import ServiceException
from copilot.generated.session_events import Data, SessionEvent, SessionEventType
@@ -290,11 +290,11 @@ class TestGitHubCopilotAgentRun:
mock_session: MagicMock,
assistant_message_event: SessionEvent,
) -> None:
"""Test run method with ChatMessage."""
"""Test run method with Message."""
mock_session.send_and_wait.return_value = assistant_message_event
agent = GitHubCopilotAgent(client=mock_client)
chat_message = ChatMessage(role="user", contents=[Content.from_text("Hello")])
chat_message = Message(role="user", contents=[Content.from_text("Hello")])
response = await agent.run(chat_message)
assert isinstance(response, AgentResponse)