Bot validation failing on The bot is not responding to command Hi.

Question

I am developing a Teams Bot and when I install it into Teams and type Hi it simply will echo that back to the user. It all works fine however when validating this in the Developer Portal it fails validation with the message "The bot is not responding to command Hi."

Am I misunderstanding something?

Answer 1

This is actually not an answer to the question, but I have the same issue.

The bot I developed acts like a chatBot (similar to chatGPT). It responds to all user messages in a 1:1 chat and if tagged with @BotName in a group chat. Here a screenshot of the error messages of the app validation:

If I side load the app to my Teams (tested with other users as well) the bot behaves as expected. Here the bot manifest:

{
  "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/json-schemas/teams/v1.17/MicrosoftTeams.schema.json",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "manifestVersion": "1.17",
  "id": "xxx",
  "name": {
    "short": "BotName",
    "full": ""
  },
  "developer": {
    "name": "org",
    "mpnId": "",
    "websiteUrl": "https://org.com",
    "privacyUrl": "https://org/our-privacy-policy/",
    "termsOfUseUrl": "https://org/our-terms-of-use/"
  },
  "description": {
    "short": "xxx",
    "full": "xxx"
  },
  "icons": {
    "outline": "outline.png",
    "color": "color.png"
  },
  "accentColor": "#ffffff",
  "staticTabs": [
    {
      "entityId": "conversations",
      "scopes": [
        "personal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "entityId": "about",
      "scopes": [
        "personal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "bots": [
    {
      "botId": "xxx",
      "scopes": [
        "team",
        "personal",
        "groupChat"
      ],
      "isNotificationOnly": false,
      "supportsCalling": true,
      "supportsVideo": false,
      "supportsFiles": true
    }
  ],
  "validDomains": [],
  "webApplicationInfo": {
    "id": "xxx",
    "resource": ""
  },
  "devicePermissions": [
    "notifications"
  ],
  "showLoadingIndicator": true,
  "defaultGroupCapability": {
    "team": "bot",
    "groupchat": "bot",
    "meetings": "bot"
  },
  "meetingExtensionDefinition": {
    "scenes": [],
    "supportsStreaming": true,
    "supportsAnonymousGuestUsers": true
  },
  "authorization": {
    "permissions": {
      "resourceSpecific": [
        {
          "name": "ChannelMessage.Read.Group",
          "type": "Application"
        },
        {
          "name": "ChannelMessage.Send.Group",
          "type": "Application"
        },
        {
          "name": "ChatMessage.Read.Chat",
          "type": "Application"
        },
        {
          "name": "ChatMessage.Send.Chat",
          "type": "Application"
        },
        {
          "name": "OnlineMeetingParticipant.Read.Chat",
          "type": "Application"
        },
        {
          "name": "ChannelMeeting.ReadBasic.Group",
          "type": "Application"
        },
        {
          "name": "Calls.JoinGroupCalls.Chat",
          "type": "Application"
        },
        {
          "name": "OnlineMeeting.ReadBasic.Chat",
          "type": "Application"
        },
        {
          "name": "ChatMember.Read.Chat",
          "type": "Application"
        },
        {
          "name": "OnlineMeetingActiveSpeaker.Read.Chat",
          "type": "Delegated"
        },
        {
          "name": "OnlineMeetingParticipant.Read.Chat",
          "type": "Delegated"
        },
        {
          "name": "ChannelMeetingActiveSpeaker.Read.Group",
          "type": "Delegated"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "supportedChannelTypes": [
    "sharedChannels",
    "privateChannels"
  ]
}