Azure AI Agent Service and Semantic Kernel

[steveh250]

Hi,

I've created an Agent via the Azure AI Foundry, Agents option and it's not clear to me how I would call that Agent from Semantic Kernel (the examples I have see show the agent being created programatically: Getting Started With Agents.

So far I have connected to the Agent via a Python script, thanks to a script from Shailender Choudhary.

Any pointers to examples where I can use Semantic Kernel to use Agents defined via the AI Foundry Agents GUI?

Cheers - Steve

[moonbox3]

Hi @steveh250, using the same libraries as shown in that step1 sample, you would do:

agent_definition = await client.agents.get_agent(assistant_id="your-assistant-id")

agent = AzureAIAgent(
      client=client,
      definition=agent_definition,
  )

The script you linked to by Shailender uses the synchronous client - I'd recommend you use the asynchronous client as we show in the step1 sample.

[moonbox3]

As a follow up, we'll add a sample showing how to do this.

[steveh250]

Couldn't wait to test it so fired up Codespaces to quickly test and worked a treat - thanks a bunch.

[steveh250]

One additional comment - I want my Agents to persist so the following line should be commented out or maybe even removed:

await client.agents.delete_agent(agent.id)

Other than that - excellent.

[moonbox3]

Created #10800 to track adding that sample.

[steveh250]

Excellent - thanks a bunch!