Copilot Studio Agents interaction

This is a simple example of how to interact with Copilot Studio Agents as they were first-party agents in Semantic Kernel.

Rationale

Semantic Kernel already features many different types of agents, including ChatCompletionAgent, AzureAIAgent, OpenAIAssistantAgent or AutoGenConversableAgent. All of them though involve code-based agents.

Instead, Microsoft Copilot Studio allows you to create declarative, low-code, and easy-to-maintain agents and publish them over multiple channels.

This way, you can create any amount of agents in Copilot Studio and interact with them along with code-based agents in Semantic Kernel, thus being able to use the best of both worlds.

Implementation

The implementation is quite simple, since Copilot Studio can publish agents over DirectLine API, which we can use in Semantic Kernel to define a new subclass of Agent named DirectLineAgent.

Additionally, we do enforce authentication to the DirectLine API.

Usage

Note

Working with Copilot Studio Agents requires a subscription to Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Tip

In this case, we suggest to start with a simple Q&A Agent and supply a PDF to answer some questions. You can find a free sample like Microsoft Surface Pro 4 User Guide

1. Create a new agent in Copilot Studio
2. Publish the agent
3. Turn off default authentication under the agent Settings > Security
4. Setup web channel security and copy the secret value

Once you're done with the above steps, you can use the following code to interact with the Copilot Studio Agent:

1. Copy the .env.sample file to .env and set the BOT_SECRET environment variable to the secret value
2. Run the following code:

python -m venv .venv

# On Mac/Linux
source .venv/bin/activate
# On Windows
.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

pip install -r requirements.txt

chainlit run --port 8081 .\chat.py