List of repos and links to standardize across all of our repos

[cleemullins]

Problem Statement:

• We have many repos, and don't have reasonable links between them.
• Humans and Tools are both confused,

Solution:

• As part of updating our Pro-Code story and cleaning up old repos, I would like to have a list of links/repos that we all agree is the "reference" list. I'll then go through and update this text snippet into the main readme for each of the repos.

Please let me know any key repos I've missed, or any that don't belong.

Once we agree, I'll keep a master copy of this in the Agents repo and cut/paste/merge it into each of our key repos to help with human navigation and SEO discoverability.

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M365 Agents and Copilot Studio Pro-Code ecosystem

Copilot Studio, the M365 Agents SDK, and the surrounding ecosystem spans multiple GitHub repos. This section describes each area and the associated Repos.

The Copilot Studio Blog contains up-to-date information about the latest releases and features across both the low-code and pro-code ecosystem.

Samples and Best Practices

Copilot Studio directly supports many code-first development experiences and extensibility points. Samples such as Single Sign On, consumption of REST APIs, and customizing the end-user UX offer a good getting started point.

Copilot Studio and M365 Agents samples

Name	Repo	Notes
Copilot Studio Samples	Copilot Studio Samples	Samples and training material for extending Copilot Studio with code and external services.
M365 Agents SDK Samples	Agents SDK Samples	Samples and training material for the M365 Agents SDK. This includes samples around Copilot Studio Skills.
WebChat Samples	WebChat Samples	Samples for using and customizing WebChat. This includes branding, customization, multi-modal support, and other features.
Copilot Studio Snippets	Copilot Studio Snippets	Samples for extending and leveraging Copilot Studio, with a mix of low and pro code customizations. Includes such items as UX customization, citations extensions, SharePoint actions, and other useful examples.
Copilot Studio Patterns and Best Practices	Copilot Studio Guidance	Microsoft Copilot Studio guidance documentation provides best practices, implementation, and architecture guidance information from the team that works with our enterprise customers.

Azure and Azure AI Agent Samples

Name	Repo	Notes
Azure AI Samples	Azure AI Samples	Top-level directory for official Azure AI sample code and examples. It includes notebooks and sample code that contain end-to-end samples as well as smaller code snippets for common developer tasks.
Microsoft AI Extension Samples	Microsoft.Extensions.AI	Microsoft.Extensions.AI is a set of core .NET libraries developed in collaboration with the .NET ecosystem, including Semantic Kernel. These libraries provide a unified layer of C# abstractions for interacting with AI services, such as small and large language models (SLMs and LLMs) and embeddings.

Copilot Studio Documentation

Each area pertaining to Agent development has documentation to help get started.

Area	Description
Copilot Studio Getting Started	Copilot Studio is a graphical, low-code tool for both creating an agent—including building automation with Power Automate—and extending a Microsoft 365 Copilot with your own enterprise data and scenarios.
Copilot Studio Guidance	Microsoft Copilot Studio guidance documentation provides best practices, implementation, and architecture guidance information from the team that works with our enterprise customers.
M365 Agents Documentation	M365 Agents SDK Documentation on GitHub Pages.
M365 Agents Learn Documentation	M365 Agents SDK Documentation on Learn.

Community, Events, and Training

Area	Description
BotBuilder Community	A collection of repos led by the community, containing extensions, including middleware, dialogs, recognizers and more for the Microsoft Bot Framework SDK.
Copilot Studio Community	Microsoft Copilot Studio general forum hosted as part of the Power Platform.
Copilot Studio Events	Upcoming partner training opportunities to learn more about the power of next-generation AI with Microsoft Copilot solutions.

M365 Agents SDK

The Microsoft 365 Agents SDK simplifies building full stack, multichannel, trusted agents for platforms including M365, Teams, Copilot Studio, and WebChat. The M365 Agents SDK is code-first solution that enables developers to build and interact with Agents using .NET, JavaScript, or Python.

The source for the client libraries exists in repositories for each language. This repository is meant to be a jumping off point into those language specific repositories. Issues related to a specific language should be opened in the corresponding repository while cross cutting issues should be opened in the Agents Repository.

Language	Repo	Documentation
General	Agents Repository	M365 Agents Documentation
C# /.NET	Agents-for-net Repository	M365 Agents SDK .NET Documentation
JavaScript	Agents-for-js Repository	M365 Agents JavaScript Documentation
Python	Agents-for-python Repository	M365 Agents Python Documentation

Agents Tooling

Repo	Description
Adaptive Cards	The versatile UI framework for Teams, Copilot and Outlook integrations.
Bot Framework DirectLineJS	Protocol Library for DirectLine, which is used by WebChat.
Teams AI Repository	This SDK is specifically designed in creating bots capable of interacting with Teams and Microsoft 365 applications. Works together with the M365 Agents SDK and Teams Toolkit
Teams Toolkit Repository	Teams Toolkit provides support for building Agents for all major Microsoft 365 platform extensibility surfaces, including Copilot for Microsoft 365, tabs, bots, message extensions for Teams as well as Outlook Add-ins
WebChat	Web Chat is a highly customizable web-based client chat control that provides the ability for users to interact with Agent directly in a web page.

Legacy Repos

The older Bot Framework repos contain many samples and implementations that may still be of interest. While superseded by the M365 Agents SDK, these repos are mature and interesting for any number of developers.

Name	Repo	Notes
Bot Framework SDK	Bot Framework SDK	Bot Framework SDK Docs
Bot Framework SDK for .NET	Bot Framework SDK for .NET	M365 Agents SDK .NET Documentation
Bot Framework SDK for JavaScript	Bot Framework SDK for JavaScript	M365 Agents JavaScript Documentation
Bot Framework SDK for Python	Bot Framework SDK for Python	M365 Agents Python Documentation
Bot Framework Emulator	Bot Framework Emulator	Electron based application for local debugging of Bots / Agents. Replaced by the M365 Agents Toolkit.

[tracyboehrer]

Should we have the WebChat repo since the above contains WebChat Samples?

What about Bot Framework Community?

[tracyboehrer]

Never mind about WebChat. I missed it.

[cleemullins]

I had both of those in there. :) Including DirectLineJS and the others.

[rido-min]

Thanks Chris, this looks great!!

My only nit is if we could make our samples in this repo as a top headline in the main README, as this is our bets entry point and the main deliverable of this repo.

[cleemullins]

@rido-min, I've updated the markdown file at the root of this discussion with your feedback.