Agent Class

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Agents

Assembly:

Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Agents.Abstractions.dll

Package:

Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Agents.Abstractions v1.20.0-alpha

Base abstraction for all Semantic Kernel agents. An agent instance may participate in one or more conversations, or AgentChat. A conversation may include one or more agents.

public abstract class Agent

type Agent = class

Public MustInherit Class Agent

Inheritance

Object

Agent

Derived

Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Agents.AggregatorAgent

Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Agents.KernelAgent

Remarks

In addition to identity and descriptive meta-data, an Agent must define its communication protocol, or AgentChannel.

Constructors

Agent()

Properties

Description	The description of the agent (optional)
Id	The identifier of the agent (optional).
Logger	The ILogger associated with this Agent.
LoggerFactory	A ILoggerFactory for this Agent.
Name	The name of the agent (optional)

Methods

CreateChannelAsync(CancellationToken)	Produce the an AgentChannel appropriate for the agent type.
GetChannelKeys()	Set of keys to establish channel affinity. Minimum expected key-set: yield return typeof(YourAgentChannel).FullName;