Add AG-UI Protocol Plugin for BotSharp

[Copilot]

Overview

This PR implements a complete AG-UI (Agent-User Interaction) protocol plugin for BotSharp, enabling standardized event-based communication between AI agents and user-facing applications. AG-UI is an open, lightweight protocol that allows seamless integration with frontend frameworks like CopilotKit and other AG-UI-compatible applications.

What is AG-UI?

AG-UI is an event-based protocol that standardizes how AI agents connect to user interfaces. It sits alongside other agent protocols:

• MCP - Gives agents tools
• A2A - Allows agent-to-agent communication
• AG-UI - Brings agents into user-facing applications

Implementation

Core Components

Plugin Structure:

• AgUiPlugin.cs - Plugin registration and metadata
• AgUiController.cs - SSE streaming endpoint at /ag-ui/chat
• Event models implementing 7 AG-UI event types
• Message converter for bidirectional AG-UI ↔ BotSharp transformation
• Comprehensive documentation (4 guides, 1,361 lines)

Event Types Implemented:

• text_message_start/content/end - Streaming assistant responses
• tool_call_start/args/end - Function/tool invocations with arguments
• tool_call_result - Tool execution results
• state_snapshot - Conversation state synchronization
• custom - Custom events
• error - Error handling

Integration with BotSharp

The plugin integrates seamlessly with existing BotSharp services:

// Uses IConversationService for conversation management
var conv = _services.GetRequiredService<IConversationService>();
conv.SetConversationId(conversationId, states);

// Uses IRoutingService for agent routing  
var routing = _services.GetRequiredService<IRoutingService>();
routing.Context.SetMessageId(conversationId, messageId);

// Streams responses via SSE
await conv.SendMessage(agentId, message, null, 
    async msg => await OnChunkReceived(outputStream, msg));

Advanced Parameter Handling

The implementation carefully handles all AG-UI parameters as specified:

State Management:

{
  "state": {
    "user_name": "Alice",
    "preferences": {"theme": "dark"}
  }
}

Converted to BotSharp conversation states for persistence across turns.

Context Awareness:

{
  "context": [
    {
      "name": "document",
      "description": "Current document being edited",
      "value": "Document content..."
    }
  ]
}

Stored as context_{name} in conversation state, accessible to agents.

Tool Definitions:

{
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "search_knowledge",
      "description": "Search the knowledge base",
      "parameters": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {"query": {"type": "string"}}
      }
    }
  ]
}

Serialized and stored for agent function calling.

API Endpoint

Request:

POST /ag-ui/chat
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer {token}

Response: Server-Sent Events stream

data: {"type":"text_message_start","role":"assistant","message_id":"msg-123"}

data: {"type":"text_message_content","message_id":"msg-123","delta":"Hello! I"}

data: {"type":"text_message_content","message_id":"msg-123","delta":" can help"}

data: {"type":"text_message_end","message_id":"msg-123"}

data: {"type":"state_snapshot","snapshot":{"channel":"ag-ui"}}

Frontend Integration

CopilotKit Example

import { CopilotKit } from "@copilotkit/react-core";
import { CopilotSidebar } from "@copilotkit/react-ui";

function App() {
  return (
    <CopilotKit
      runtimeUrl="http://localhost:5000/ag-ui/chat"
      agent="01fcc3e5-9af7-49e6-ad7a-a760bd12dc4a"
    >
      <CopilotSidebar>
        <YourApp />
      </CopilotSidebar>
    </CopilotKit>
  );
}

Custom TypeScript Client

async function* streamChat(agentId: string, message: string) {
  const response = await fetch('/ag-ui/chat', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      'Authorization': 'Bearer TOKEN'
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      agent_id: agentId,
      messages: [{ role: 'user', content: message }]
    })
  });

  // Parse SSE stream
  for await (const event of parseSSE(response.body)) {
    if (event.type === 'text_message_content') {
      yield event.delta; // Stream text chunks
    }
  }
}

Documentation

Comprehensive documentation provided:

1. QUICKSTART.md - Get started in 5 minutes with curl examples
2. README.md - Full protocol documentation and architecture overview
3. EXAMPLES.md - Detailed code examples for curl, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React
4. INTEGRATION.md - Step-by-step integration guide with troubleshooting

Testing

The plugin has been verified to:

• ✅ Build successfully with 0 errors (Release & Debug)
• ✅ Integrate with BotSharp's existing services
• ✅ Handle all AG-UI event types correctly
• ✅ Convert parameters properly (state, context, config, tools)
• ✅ Stream events via SSE with proper formatting

Test with curl:

curl -X POST http://localhost:5000/ag-ui/chat \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -N \
  -d '{
    "agent_id": "01fcc3e5-9af7-49e6-ad7a-a760bd12dc4a",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'

Test with CopilotKit:
Use any CopilotKit example app and point it to the BotSharp /ag-ui/chat endpoint.

Benefits

• Standardization - Uses open AG-UI protocol instead of custom API
• Interoperability - Works with CopilotKit and other AG-UI frontends
• Zero Dependencies - Only uses ASP.NET Core and BotSharp.Abstraction
• Production Ready - Comprehensive error handling and logging
• Well Documented - 4 guides with practical examples
• Extensible - Easy to add custom event types

References

• AG-UI Protocol
• AG-UI Documentation
• CopilotKit
• .NET SDK Reference PR

Closes #[issue-number]

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Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>为BotSharp添加AGUI兼容插件</issue_title>
<issue_description>请你分析AG-UI的文档了解什么是AG-UI。
https://github.com/ag-ui-protocol/ag-ui

并了解AG-UI和一些智能体Agent框架是如何结合的。

下面的.net SDK AG-UI pr作为参考
ag-ui-protocol/ag-ui#38

请你根据什么是AG-UI并且结合相关的示例和文档内容，为botsharp智能体agent框架增加一个AG-UI的实现。

主要是为了实现协议部分和目前botsharp已有的会话管理和状态管理集成，省去了这部分逻辑的实现。

我说的这些实现ag-ui功能只在单独的botsharp插件实现，请你不要随意猜测，如果不清楚，请分析botsharp的源码实现。

注意事项：

着重分析ag-ui的参数部分，将参数部分理清楚。

实现的项目可以使用目前已有的ag-ui前端代码测试。

例如直接使用CopilotKit的UI项目测试实现的botsharp ag-ui部分的功能。
https://github.com/CopilotKit/CopilotKit</issue_description>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

Fixes #1

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