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# Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.
import asyncio
from agent_framework.azure import AzureAIAgentClient
from agent_framework.openai import OpenAIChatClient
from azure.identity.aio import AzureCliCredential
"""
Thread Suspend and Resume Example
This sample demonstrates how to suspend and resume conversation threads, comparing
service-managed threads (Azure AI) with in-memory threads (OpenAI) for persistent
conversation state across sessions.
"""
async def suspend_resume_service_managed_thread() -> None:
"""Demonstrates how to suspend and resume a service-managed thread."""
print("=== Suspend-Resume Service-Managed Thread ===")
# AzureAIAgentClient supports service-managed threads.
async with (
AzureCliCredential() as credential,
AzureAIAgentClient(credential=credential).as_agent(
name="MemoryBot", instructions="You are a helpful assistant that remembers our conversation."
) as agent,
):
# Start a new thread for the agent conversation.
thread = agent.get_new_thread()
# Respond to user input.
query = "Hello! My name is Alice and I love pizza."
print(f"User: {query}")
print(f"Agent: {await agent.run(query, thread=thread)}\n")
# Serialize the thread state, so it can be stored for later use.
serialized_thread = await thread.serialize()
# The thread can now be saved to a database, file, or any other storage mechanism and loaded again later.
print(f"Serialized thread: {serialized_thread}\n")
# Deserialize the thread state after loading from storage.
resumed_thread = await agent.deserialize_thread(serialized_thread)
# Respond to user input.
query = "What do you remember about me?"
print(f"User: {query}")
print(f"Agent: {await agent.run(query, thread=resumed_thread)}\n")
async def suspend_resume_in_memory_thread() -> None:
"""Demonstrates how to suspend and resume an in-memory thread."""
print("=== Suspend-Resume In-Memory Thread ===")
# OpenAI Chat Client is used as an example here,
# other chat clients can be used as well.
agent = OpenAIChatClient().as_agent(
name="MemoryBot", instructions="You are a helpful assistant that remembers our conversation."
)
# Start a new thread for the agent conversation.
thread = agent.get_new_thread()
# Respond to user input.
query = "Hello! My name is Alice and I love pizza."
print(f"User: {query}")
print(f"Agent: {await agent.run(query, thread=thread)}\n")
# Serialize the thread state, so it can be stored for later use.
serialized_thread = await thread.serialize()
# The thread can now be saved to a database, file, or any other storage mechanism and loaded again later.
print(f"Serialized thread: {serialized_thread}\n")
# Deserialize the thread state after loading from storage.
resumed_thread = await agent.deserialize_thread(serialized_thread)
# Respond to user input.
query = "What do you remember about me?"
print(f"User: {query}")
print(f"Agent: {await agent.run(query, thread=resumed_thread)}\n")
async def main() -> None:
print("=== Suspend-Resume Thread Examples ===")
await suspend_resume_service_managed_thread()
await suspend_resume_in_memory_thread()
if __name__ == "__main__":
asyncio.run(main())