Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit

Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Command Line Interface (CLI) are tools for building agents or apps for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 easy and fast. Whether you are new or a seasoned developer, Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit is the best way for you to start creating, building, debugging, testing, and deploying.

Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit provides support for the end-to-end development journey, including:

• Support for all Microsoft 365 platform extensibility surfaces, including Copilot for Microsoft 365, Agent/chatbot, tabs and message extensions for Microsoft Teams as well as Office Add-ins.
• Seamless integration with Microsoft Agents SDK to build self-hosted agents.
• Seamless integration with Microsoft Teams SDK to build intelligent chatbot in Microsoft Teams with ease.
• Integrations with the tools, languages, and frameworks you know and love.
• Scaffolds for getting started fast with the extensibility interfaces and common scenarios such as Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot, intelligent chat bot for multiple platforms.
• Rapid iteration with full stack debugging, hot reload, secure tunneling and Microsoft 365 Agents Playground.
• Simplified SSO authentication.
• Integrated support for hosting, data storage, and serverless functions.
• CI/CD actions for GitHub and Azure DevOps to deliver apps with confidence.

Get Started

Pick your preferred tool to get started:

• For JavaScript and TypeScript developers, install Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio Code.
• For .NET developers, install Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio.
• For command line users, install Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit CLI: npm install -g @microsoft/m365agentstoolkit-cli

Visit Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit documentation to get started with building agents and apps.

Roadmap

Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Command Line Interface (CLI) will be updated regularly with new features and bug fixes to continuously improve end-to-end Teams development experience. Visit our Changelog and Prerelease Changelog to see what's available for you now and see product roadmap to find out what's coming.

Support Policy

Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit products will follow Modern Lifecycle Policy and extended support as described in our lifecycle and support document.

Feedback

• Ask a question on Stack Overflow
• Request a new feature
• File an issue
• Send an email to ttkfeedback@microsoft.com to chat with the product team
• Report security issues and bugs to the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) via secure@microsoft.com. Further information can be found in the Security TechCenter.

Repository

This repository contains the following packages:

Package	Description
Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio Code packages/vscode-extension	Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio Code enables you to scaffold, run, debug, and deploy custom Teams apps directly from Visual Studio Code. It provides all the features of the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit CLI tool integrated into the IDE, as well as easy access to more samples, docs and tools.
Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit CLI packages/cli	Whether you prefer keyboard-centric developer operations, or you are automating your CI/CD pipeline, the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit CLI tool offers the same features as the IDE extensions.
SDK packages/sdk	The main code library encapsulating simple authentication for both client and server-side code tailored for Teams developers.
API packages/api	The API package is a collection of contracts supported by the IDE Extensions and CLI. It enables developers to write plugins to extend TeamsFx with new capabilities.
Core packages/fx-core	The Core package centralizes implementation of capabilities shared by the IDE Extensions and the CLI.
Azure Functions Support packages/function-extension	Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit helps developers include server-side code in their Teams application backed by Azure Functions. This plugin adds support to simplify the integration of an authentication-aware Azure Function into your Teams app.
Spec Parser packages/spec-parser	Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit automates the process of generating API-based message extensions and Adaptive Cards by parsing the OpenAPI description document.

Contributions

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit Contributor License Agreement.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

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• Check out our contribution page for more information

Telemetry

Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read our Privacy Statement and Data Collection Notice to learn more. Learn more in our FAQ.

Trademarks

This project may contain trademarks or logos for projects, products, or services. Authorized use of Microsoft trademarks or logos is subject to and must follow Microsoft's Trademark & Brand Guidelines. Use of Microsoft trademarks or logos in modified versions of this project must not cause confusion or imply Microsoft sponsorship. Any use of third-party trademarks or logos are subject to those third-party's policies.

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.