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>
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@@ -30,32 +30,29 @@ from agent_framework.orchestrations import (
| Sample | File | Concepts |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Concurrent Orchestration (Default Aggregator) | [concurrent_agents.py](./concurrent_agents.py) | Fan-out to multiple agents; fan-in with default aggregator returning combined ChatMessages |
| Concurrent Orchestration (Default Aggregator) | [concurrent_agents.py](./concurrent_agents.py) | Fan-out to multiple agents; fan-in with default aggregator returning combined Messages |
| Concurrent Orchestration (Custom Aggregator) | [concurrent_custom_aggregator.py](./concurrent_custom_aggregator.py) | Override aggregator via callback; summarize results with an LLM |
| Concurrent Orchestration (Custom Agent Executors) | [concurrent_custom_agent_executors.py](./concurrent_custom_agent_executors.py) | Child executors own ChatAgents; concurrent fan-out/fan-in via ConcurrentBuilder |
| Concurrent Orchestration (Participant Factory) | [concurrent_participant_factory.py](./concurrent_participant_factory.py) | Use participant factories for state isolation between workflow instances |
| Concurrent Orchestration (Custom Agent Executors) | [concurrent_custom_agent_executors.py](./concurrent_custom_agent_executors.py) | Child executors own Agents; concurrent fan-out/fan-in via ConcurrentBuilder |
| Group Chat with Agent Manager | [group_chat_agent_manager.py](./group_chat_agent_manager.py) | Agent-based manager using `with_orchestrator(agent=)` to select next speaker |
| Group Chat Philosophical Debate | [group_chat_philosophical_debate.py](./group_chat_philosophical_debate.py) | Agent manager moderates long-form, multi-round debate across diverse participants |
| Group Chat with Simple Function Selector | [group_chat_simple_selector.py](./group_chat_simple_selector.py) | Group chat with a simple function selector for next speaker |
| Handoff (Simple) | [handoff_simple.py](./handoff_simple.py) | Single-tier routing: triage agent routes to specialists, control returns to user after each specialist response |
| Handoff (Autonomous) | [handoff_autonomous.py](./handoff_autonomous.py) | Autonomous mode: specialists iterate independently until invoking a handoff tool using `.with_autonomous_mode()` |
| Handoff (Participant Factory) | [handoff_participant_factory.py](./handoff_participant_factory.py) | Use participant factories for state isolation between workflow instances |
| Handoff with Code Interpreter | [handoff_with_code_interpreter_file.py](./handoff_with_code_interpreter_file.py) | Retrieve file IDs from code interpreter output in handoff workflow |
| Magentic Workflow (Multi-Agent) | [magentic.py](./magentic.py) | Orchestrate multiple agents with Magentic manager and streaming |
| Magentic + Human Plan Review | [magentic_human_plan_review.py](./magentic_human_plan_review.py) | Human reviews/updates the plan before execution |
| Magentic + Checkpoint Resume | [magentic_checkpoint.py](./magentic_checkpoint.py) | Resume Magentic orchestration from saved checkpoints |
| Sequential Orchestration (Agents) | [sequential_agents.py](./sequential_agents.py) | Chain agents sequentially with shared conversation context |
| Sequential Orchestration (Custom Executor) | [sequential_custom_executors.py](./sequential_custom_executors.py) | Mix agents with a summarizer that appends a compact summary |
| Sequential Orchestration (Participant Factories) | [sequential_participant_factory.py](./sequential_participant_factory.py) | Use participant factories for state isolation between workflow instances |
## Tips
**Magentic checkpointing tip**: Treat `MagenticBuilder.participants` keys as stable identifiers. When resuming from a checkpoint, the rebuilt workflow must reuse the same participant names; otherwise the checkpoint cannot be applied and the run will fail fast.
**Handoff workflow tip**: Handoff workflows maintain the full conversation history including any `ChatMessage.additional_properties` emitted by your agents. This ensures routing metadata remains intact across all agent transitions. For specialist-to-specialist handoffs, use `.add_handoff(source, targets)` to configure which agents can route to which others with a fluent, type-safe API.
**Handoff workflow tip**: Handoff workflows maintain the full conversation history including any `Message.additional_properties` emitted by your agents. This ensures routing metadata remains intact across all agent transitions. For specialist-to-specialist handoffs, use `.add_handoff(source, targets)` to configure which agents can route to which others with a fluent, type-safe API.
**Sequential orchestration note**: Sequential orchestration uses a few small adapter nodes for plumbing:
- `input-conversation` normalizes input to `list[ChatMessage]`
- `input-conversation` normalizes input to `list[Message]`
- `to-conversation:<participant>` converts agent responses into the shared conversation
- `complete` publishes the final output event (type='output')