Will Foundry Local SDK support Microsoft.Extensions.AI?

[awrff]

Hi, Team and everyone

I'm working on a local agent project using Microsoft Agent Framework and Foundry Local (Both C#). And it's glad to see the new version does not require Foundry Local Cli installed anymore.

But I found that Foundry Local SDK is not quite compatible with Microsoft Agent Framework. MAF is based on IChatClient abstraction from Microsoft.Extensions.AI while Foundry Local is built with OpenAIChatClient. Data models such as ChatMessage can not be directly and converted from MAF to Foundry Local, which will cause information loss.

Since both of these two conceptions belong to Microsoft and Microsoft.Extensions.AI is aim to be a universal abstraction layer across different platforms. I'd like to know if Foundry Local will support Microsoft.Extensions.AI(IChatClient/IEmbeddingGenerator) in the future?

[jrouzies-fr]

I have the same question, would be interested to know this could stack together