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.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

.NET: [BREAKING] Change SerializeSession to be Async (#3879 )

* Change SerializeSession to be Async

* Update Changelog

westey · 2026-02-12 11:56:42 +00:00

6a88c7b1a1

.NET: Introduce Core implementation methods for session methods on AIAgent (#3699 )

* Introduce Core implementation methods for session methods on AIAgent

* Update changelog

westey · 2026-02-06 13:25:20 +00:00

ac17adb595

.NET: [BREAKING] Rename session state json param (#3681 )

* Rename session state json param to ensure consistency

* Fix merge failures and PR comments.

westey · 2026-02-04 18:54:10 +00:00

a2d1e69652

.NET: [BREAKING] Move AgentSession.Serialize to AIAgent (#3650 )

* Move AgentSession.Serialize to AIAgent

* Address PR comments.

* Improve code and fix unit test

* Update test agents to return a default json element instead of throwing where the the result of the serialization is never used.

* Update further tests to actually serialize the session

westey · 2026-02-04 15:52:15 +00:00

6255abd687

.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: [Breaking] Rename AgentRunResponseEvent and AgentRunUpdateEvent classes (#3214 )

* rename AgentRunResponseEvent and AgentRunUpdateEvent classes

* rollback unnecessary changes

SergeyMenshykh · 2026-01-14 17:44:35 +00:00

f56808b279

.NET: [Breaking] RenameAgentRunResponse and AgentRunResponseUpdate classes (#3197 )

* rename AgentRunResponse and AgentRunResponseUpdate classes - part1

* rename varialbles, parameters, methods and tests

* rollback unnecessary changes

SergeyMenshykh · 2026-01-14 10:27:41 +00:00

c70e594e6c

.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] Introduce RunCoreAsync/RunCoreStreamingAsync delegation pattern in AIAgent (#2749 )

* Initial plan

* Refactor AIAgent: Make RunAsync and RunStreamingAsync non-abstract, add RunCoreAsync and RunCoreStreamingAsync

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* Fix infinite recursion in test implementations

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* Make RunAsync and RunStreamingAsync non-virtual as requested

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* Fix DelegatingAIAgent subclasses to use RunCoreAsync/RunCoreStreamingAsync

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* Fix XML documentation references in AnonymousDelegatingAIAgent

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* Restore <see cref> tags with proper qualified signatures in AnonymousDelegatingAIAgent

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* Rollback unnecessary XML documentation changes in AnonymousDelegatingAIAgent

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* Remove pragma and update crefs to RunCoreAsync/RunCoreStreamingAsync

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* Fix EntityAgentWrapper to call base.RunCoreAsync/RunCoreStreamingAsync

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* fix compilation issues

* fix compilatio issue

* fix tests

* fix unit tests

* fix unit test

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Copilot · 2025-12-30 12:24:09 +00:00

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fix: .NET: Concurrency Support for Orchestrations (#1689 )

Concurrent run support was recently added to workflows, but Orchestrations did not fully update to support it. A few executors were missing Cross-Run Shareable annotations, and the ConcurrentEnd executor needed to be factory-instantiated.

This also ports the fix for #1613 from #1637, to avoid waiting on that PR.

Jacob Alber · 2025-10-24 23:18:51 +00:00

899d8ff775

.NET: [BREAKING] Enable sharing of workflow instances across concurrently executing runs (#1464 )

* refactor: remove unused internals

* feat: Execution Mode for sharing a workflow among concurrent runs

* feat: Update WorkflowHostAgent to support concurrent execution

* Also update AsAgent APIs to support injecting a CheckpointManager and an IWorkflowExecutionEnvironment

* fix: Make Read logic consistent in DeclarativeWorkflowContext

Jacob Alber · 2025-10-15 21:34:17 +00:00

331c750515

.NET [WIP]: introduce Hosting extensions for Workflows (#1359 )

* skeleton

* wip

* rename + fix tests

* implement workflow tests

* fix comments

* Update dotnet/src/Microsoft.Agents.AI.Hosting/HostApplicationBuilderWorkflowExtensions.cs

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* fixes

* fix worfklow build logic

* rollback + new overload on workflow builder

* address PR comments

* :)

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Korolev Dmitry · 2025-10-14 19:44:58 +00:00

0331331dbc

.NET: [BREAKING] Propagate CancellationToken into Workflow Executors and message handlers (#1280 )

* feat: Propagate CancellationToken to Executors

* Also adds cancellation propagation to `Executor`-accessible APIs
* Adds registrators for cancellable handlers to `RouteBuilder`
* [BREAKING]: Adds `CancellationToken` to `IMessageHandler.HandleAsync`

* test: Re-enable Concurrent Orchestration test

* refactor: Delete unused IInputCoordinator

* refactor: Remove superfluous argument qualifications

Jacob Alber · 2025-10-08 00:28:44 +00:00

5902bcb10a

[BREAKING] .NET: Workflow Off-Thread Execution Mode (#1233 )

* Updates to async run loop.

* fix: Workflow Onwership can be release by nonowner

* fix: Incorrect handling of blockOnPending in StreamingRun

Depending on whether we are running in streaming on non-streaming mode, we may be using the StreamingRun in different ways. Unfortunately, the only place we can really know what is the actual state of execution is in the RunEventStream implementations.

This resulted in blocking where blocking was unneeded and occasionally not-blocking when blocking was needed.

The fix is to move the logic of handling this blocking into RunEventStream implementations.

* fix: Fix cleanup on error and end run

This ensures we clean up the background resources correctly.

* fix: Ensure we let the run loop proceed when shutting down

* fix: Add timeout for Input Waiting

* fix: Make the samples properly clean up `Run`s and `StreamingRun`s

* fix: Simplify Declarative Workflow Run disposal pattern

* Also fixes missing .Disposal() in Integration tests

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Jacob Alber · 2025-10-07 01:07:38 +00:00

7ebe00ec3d

.NET: Move the AsAIAgent extension methods to the correct class (#1106 )

* Move the AsAIAgent extension methods to the correct class

* Fix format issue

* Disable unit test, see issue #1109

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Mark Wallace · 2025-10-02 12:41:22 +00:00

b1282254df

.NET: Clean up stale mentions of M.E.AI.Agents (#997 )

* Clean up stale mentions of M.E.AI.Agents

* Unused usings

Stephen Toub · 2025-09-30 08:36:06 +00:00

77e5f527c4

.NET: Rename workflows projects (#975 )

* Renaming Microsoft.Agent.Workflows to Microsoft.Agents.AI.Workflows

* Removing local settings.

* Removing remining old files from merge.

Ben Thomas · 2025-09-29 18:30:45 +00:00

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