agent-framework

.NET: [BREAKING] Add session StateBag for state storage and support multiple providers on the Agent (#3806 )

* .NET: [BREAKING] Add session statebag to use for state storage instead of inside providers (#3737)

* Add a StateBag to AgentSession and pass Agent and AgentSession to AIContextProvider and ChatHistoryProviders

* Convert all AIContextProviders to use the statebag

* Update InMemoryChatHistoryProvider to use StateBag

* Update Comsos and Workflow ChatHistoryProviders

* Update 3rd party chat history storage sample.

* Remove serialize method from providers

* Replacing provider factories with properties

* Remove Providers from Session and flatten state bag serialization

* Update samples to use getservice on agent

* Updated additional session types to serialize statebag

* Fix regression

* Address PR comments

* Address PR comments.

* Fix formatting

* Fix unit tests

* Remove InMemoryAgentSession since it is not required anymore.

* Address PR comments

* Convert sessions for A2AAgent, ChatClientAgent, CopilotStudioAgent and GithubCopilotAgent to use regular json serialization.

* Fix durable agent session jso usgae

* Add jso to InMemory and Workflow ChatHistoryProviders

* Update InMemoryChatHistoryProvider to use an options class for it's many optional settings.

* Apply suggestions from code review

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* Address PR feedback

* Fix verification bug.

* Improve state bag thread safety

* Address PR comments and fix unit tests

* Address PR comments

* Fix unit test

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* Add a public StateKey property to providers (#3810)

* .NET: [BREAKING] Update providers in such a way that they can participate in a pipeline (#3846)

* Make providers pipeline capable

* Fix unit tests

* Move source stamping to providers from base class

* Also update samples.

* Address PR comments

* Rename AsAgentRequestMessageSourcedMessage to WithAgentRequestMessageSource

* .NET: [BREAKING] Add consistent message filtering to all providers. (#3851)

* Add consistent message filtering to all providers.

* Remove old chat history filtering classes

* Fix merge issues

* Fix unit test

* Enforce non-nullable property

* Fix merging bug and make troubleshooting source info easier by adding tostring implementation

* .NET: [BREAKING] Add support for multiple AIContextProviders on a ChatClientAgent (#3863)

* Add support for multiple AIContextProviders on a ChatClientAgent

* Address PR comments and fix tests

* Address PR comments.

* .NET: [BREAKING]Delay AIContext Materialization until the end of the pipeline is reached. (#3883)

* Delay AIContext Materialization until the end of the pipeline is reached.

* Address PR comments.

* Address PR comments

* Modify InvokedContext to be immutable (#3888)

* .NET: Address Feedback on StateBag feature branch PR (#3910)

* Address Feedback on statebag feature branch PR

* Update dotnet/src/Microsoft.Agents.AI.DurableTask/CHANGELOG.md

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* Address PR comments

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westey · 2026-02-13 14:08:07 +00:00

3168eb4870

use DefaultAzureCredential instead of AzureCliCredential (#3860 )

SergeyMenshykh · 2026-02-12 12:27:54 +00:00

6000b737e9

.NET: [BREAKING] Rename GetNewSession to CreateSession (#3501 )

* Rename GetNewSession to CreateSession

* Address copilot feedback

* Suppress warning

* Suppress warning

* Fix further warnings.

westey · 2026-02-03 11:33:50 +00:00

6fdf6111e6

.NET: [BREAKING] Rename AgentThread to AgentSession (#3430 )

* Rename AgentThread to AgentSession

* Add more renames

* Update readme files

* Revert nullable variable change and further fixes.

* Revert change in header name

* Fix some comments and tests

* Update changelog.

* Address PR feedback.

* Fixing code review comments.

* Fix new errors after merging latest code.

westey · 2026-01-26 16:30:25 +00:00

a3a9147e61

.NET: Rename ChatMessageStore to ChatHistoryProvider (#3375 )

* Rename ChatMessageStore to ChatHistoryProvider

* Fix merge issue

* Fixed PR comments

* Fix tests after property rename

* Add unit tests and fix merge issues

* Fix encoding

westey · 2026-01-23 15:49:01 +00:00

21e00c054b

.NET: [BREAKING] Renamed CreateAIAgent/GetAIAgent to AsAIAgent (#3222 )

* Renamed chat client extension method

* Additional renaming

* Updated documentation

* Fixed tests

* Small fix

* Small fix

Dmytro Struk · 2026-01-15 16:01:15 +00:00

2ab859dd94

.NET: [BREAKING] Change GetNewThread and DeserializeThread to async (#3152 )

* Change GetNewThread and DeserializeThread plus ChatMessageStore and AIContextProvider Factories to async

* Merge fixes

westey · 2026-01-12 11:25:51 +00:00

bb6ecd9c71

.NET: [BREAKING] Refactor ChatMessageStore methods to be similar to AIContextProvider and add filtering support (#2604 )

* Refactor ChatMessageStore methods to be similar to AIContextProvider

* Fix file encoding

* Ensure that AIContextProvider messages area also persisted.

* Update formatting and seal context classes

* Improve formatting

* Remove optional messages from constructor and add unit test

* Add ChatMessageStore filtering via a decorator

* Update sample and cosmos message store to store AIContextProvider messages in right order. Fix unit tests.

* Update Workflowmessage store to use aicontext provider messages.

* Apply suggestions from code review

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* Apply suggestions from code review

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* Improve xml docs messaging

* Address code review comments.

* Also notify message store on failure

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westey · 2026-01-05 11:51:15 +00:00

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.NET: [BREAKING] Change namespaces of the Microsoft.Agents.AI.OpenAI classes (#2627 )

* change namespaces for agents and extension methods of the Microsoft.Agents.AI.OpenAI package

* remove unnecessary namespace

* remove unused namespaces

* fix compilation issues and rrolled back removed run methods

* sort usings

* add extension methods for AIAgent to work with OpenAI Responses primitives

* Move OpenAIChatClientAgent and OpenAIResponseClientAgent to samples

* sort usings

* sort usings

SergeyMenshykh · 2025-12-09 12:58:44 +00:00

69225b4aa2

.NET: Move TextSearchProvider and TextSearchProviderOptions to Microsoft.Agents.AI namespace (#2639 )

* Initial plan

* Move TextSearchProvider and TextSearchProviderOptions to Microsoft.Agents.AI namespace

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* Restore AgentWithTextSearchRag project in solution file

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* Revert using statement removal in AgentWithRAG_Step01_BasicTextRAG sample

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* Revert the previous revert - remove using Microsoft.Agents.AI.Data from AgentWithRAG_Step01_BasicTextRAG

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* Revert using statement removal in AgentWithTextSearchRag sample

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Copilot · 2025-12-05 11:01:53 +00:00

db36809744

.NET [Breaking] Simplify and Refactor ChatclientAgentOptions Ctor + Instructions (#1517 )

* Point AgentOptions.Instructions to ChatOptions

* Update tests and checks

* Update xml docs

* Removal of agentOptions.Instructions in favor of chatOptions.Instructions

* Instructions and tool check consistency

* Instructions and tool check consistency

* Address comment

* Update .github/upgrades/prompts/SemanticKernelToAgentFramework.md

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* Address PR Comment

* Update latest changes to comply with the PR proposal

* Address feedback

* Update dotnet/tests/Microsoft.Agents.AI.UnitTests/ChatClient/ChatClientAgentTests.cs

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* Address instructions

* Update declarative to use promptAgent.Instrucitons with chatOptions.Instructions

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Roger Barreto · 2025-12-03 13:39:47 +00:00

6232dd8305

.NET: [BREAKING] Simplify TextSearchProvider construction and improve Mem0Provider scoping. (#1905 )

* Simplify TextSearchProvider construction and improve Mem0Provider scoping

* Fixing indentation.

westey · 2025-11-05 13:00:18 +00:00

5e38c63455

.NET: Add rag samples with sample TextSearchStore (#1664 )

* Port store for adding text to a vector store to AF

* Fix typo.

* Change TextSearchStore to sample, and add sample to use it and do rag with a custom schema

* Add more tests and fix broken ones

* Fix merge issue

* Fix sample after merge.

* Convert TextSearchStore to use Dynamic mode to be AOT compatible.

* Add some more clarification on when to use assistant messages in rag searches.

westey · 2025-11-04 16:24:26 +00:00

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