Foundry Agent #31

The strategy has changed as follows:

• New Agent Framework will be delivered as SK v2.0
• For .Net we will define the Agent abstractions in Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Agents.Abstrations
• We will implement a ChatClientAgent that takes an IChatClient implementation
• For Agent Services e.g. OpenAI Assistants, Foundry Agent Service, ... we will implement IChatClient and this will be added to either the M.E.AI package or preferably the Agent Client SDK.

This strategy is still being validated. Roger is working on ChatCompletionAgent using IChatClient that is backed by an LLM. Weslie is working on ChatCompletionAgent using IChatClient that is backed OpenAI Assistants and OpenAI Responses APIs.

For this task we need to validate using an IChatClient backed by the PersistentAgentClient. Here is the implementation Stephen has created https://gist.github.com/stephentoub/934bbc703e42cb7f8207716a41b127aa.

Focus should be on the following items:

• Support for Agent execution using streaming and non streaming
• Function calling support
• Add unit test project and 80% code coverage
• Add getting started samples

Once this is done we need to explore supporting all of the different tool types. M.E.AI only supports functions, code interpreter and web search. So we may need to propose some new tool types or define our own.