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60cc5ee4e4 .NET: Make GitHub.Copilot.SDK build targets reach transitive consumers (#6455) (#6457)
* .NET: Make GitHub.Copilot.SDK build targets reach transitive consumers (#6455)

Microsoft.Agents.AI.GitHub.Copilot now ships a buildTransitive/ bridge so
consumers who only reference this package (the normal use case) get the
GitHub.Copilot.SDK's CLI binary-download MSBuild targets executed at build
time. Without this, the SDK shipped its targets under build/ which NuGet
only auto-imports for projects with a direct PackageReference to the SDK,
so consumers of the adapter package got only the managed .dll, no
copilot.exe in their output, and a runtime InvalidOperationException on
the first RunAsync.

The bridge consists of two files under buildTransitive/:

* Microsoft.Agents.AI.GitHub.Copilot.props is generated at this package's
  pack time and pins the SDK version (from PackageVersion items in
  Directory.Packages.props) into _MicrosoftAgentsAICopilotSdkVersion.

* Microsoft.Agents.AI.GitHub.Copilot.targets is static and imports the
  SDK's own build/GitHub.Copilot.SDK.targets from the NuGet cache using
  the pinned version. The version-pin condition no-ops gracefully if the
  resolved SDK differs from what was baked in (e.g. consumer overrides
  the SDK version directly), so this is purely additive.

Verified by packing locally, restoring from a flat local feed, and
building a transitive-only consumer (PackageReference to MAF only, no
direct SDK ref). copilot.exe lands at bin/{cfg}/{tfm}/runtimes/{rid}/
native/copilot.exe as expected, matching the path the SDK's runtime
CopilotClient looks at.

Fixes #6455

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* Address Copilot review feedback (#6457)

- buildTransitive/.targets: compute the full SDK targets path with a single
  Path.Combine call into one property (_MicrosoftAgentsAICopilotSdkTargetsPath),
  used in both Project= and Exists() — no more split between Path.Combine for
  the directory and inline / separator for the file name.

- Split the version-defaulting Condition between the two files: the generated
  .props now just bakes the packaged SDK version into a dedicated property
  (_MicrosoftAgentsAICopilotSdkPackagedVersion), and the static .targets file
  is the single place that defaults _MicrosoftAgentsAICopilotSdkVersion to it.
  Removes the need for any MSBuild escape gymnastics in the pack-time string
  construction, and keeps the consumer override path the same.

- _GenerateBuildTransitiveProps now hangs off public BeforeTargets (Build, Pack)
  in addition to _GetPackageFiles, so the file is generated even without a
  full pack, and we're not solely dependent on an underscore-prefixed internal
  target. The <None Pack=true /> items live in a top-level ItemGroup so they
  are collected at evaluation time instead of being added from inside the
  Target.

End-to-end retested with a transitive-only consumer (PackageReference to MAF
only, no direct GitHub.Copilot.SDK ref): copilot.exe lands at
bin/Debug/net10.0/runtimes/win-x64/native/copilot.exe (141.8 MB) as before.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Tamir Dresher <tamirdresher@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-10 18:07:18 +00:00
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