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This is the first installment of a series of PRs related to adding single agent declarative spec support.

SK .NET has had support for single agent declarative specs for a bit now, and Python needs the functionality as well. This PR adds the core abstractions and functionality to be able to define agents via a declarative yaml spec.

Declarative specs require the use of a kernel, and if in the case of function calling, require that any plugins defined in the spec already be present in the kernel.

For naming, there are placeholder names that are camel case. This needs to be the case so it can match .NET.

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Provide declarative spec support for ChatCompletionAgent and AzureAIAgent

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Love this, with some initial thoughts...

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There are some Azure AI Agent changes coming, and before committing this to main, I want to make some updates here as it'll affect the declarative spec, too.

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…ponsesAgent (#12247)

### Motivation and Context

This PR builds on the initial work/abstractions from #11982. The
`AzureAssistantAgent` / `OpenAIAssistantAgent` as well as the
`AzureResponsesAgent` / `OpenAIResponsesAgent` now support declarative
specs. Several examples on how to declare the spec are shown in the
respective dirs in `samples/concepts/agents`, as well as a simple
getting started example for each agent type.

To further simplify working with these two agents, the
`setup_resources()` methods for each agent type have been marked with a
deprecation tag. The new method to use is
`OpenAIAssistantAgent.create_client()` or
`OpenAIResponsesAgent.create_client()`. Further, when one needs to
access the underlying setting's, it's simple to do so with a settings
object and accessing the attribute.

In the previous PR for the AzureAIAgent, it lacked support for
templating - this is included in this current PR.

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### Description

Bring in support for the declarative single agent spec for these agent
types.
- Add samples
- Add unit tests
- Add support for prompt templates for all current agent types
- Closes #11979

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- [X] I didn't break anyone 😄
eavanvalkenburg pushed a commit that referenced this pull request May 26, 2025
…ponsesAgent (#12247)

This PR builds on the initial work/abstractions from #11982. The
`AzureAssistantAgent` / `OpenAIAssistantAgent` as well as the
`AzureResponsesAgent` / `OpenAIResponsesAgent` now support declarative
specs. Several examples on how to declare the spec are shown in the
respective dirs in `samples/concepts/agents`, as well as a simple
getting started example for each agent type.

To further simplify working with these two agents, the
`setup_resources()` methods for each agent type have been marked with a
deprecation tag. The new method to use is
`OpenAIAssistantAgent.create_client()` or
`OpenAIResponsesAgent.create_client()`. Further, when one needs to
access the underlying setting's, it's simple to do so with a settings
object and accessing the attribute.

In the previous PR for the AzureAIAgent, it lacked support for
templating - this is included in this current PR.

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Bring in support for the declarative single agent spec for these agent
types.
- Add samples
- Add unit tests
- Add support for prompt templates for all current agent types
- Closes #11979

<!-- Describe your changes, the overall approach, the underlying design.
These notes will help understanding how your code works. Thanks! -->

<!-- Before submitting this PR, please make sure: -->

- [X] The code builds clean without any errors or warnings
- [X] The PR follows the [SK Contribution
Guidelines](https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
and the [pre-submission formatting
script](https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#development-scripts)
raises no violations
- [X] All unit tests pass, and I have added new tests where possible
- [X] I didn't break anyone 😄
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