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### Motivation and Context <!-- Thank you for your contribution to the semantic-kernel repo! Please help reviewers and future users, providing the following information: 1. Why is this change required? 2. What problem does it solve? 3. What scenario does it contribute to? 4. If it fixes an open issue, please link to the issue here. --> Users of the Agent Framework are unable to store and later retrieve conversation state when using an AgentChat to coordinate Agent interactions. This limits the ability for an agent conversation to single use as it must be maintained with memory of the process that initiated the conversation. Formalizing a mechanism that supports serialization and deserialization of any AgentChat class provides an avenue to capture and restore state across multiple sessions as well as compute boundaries. ### Description <!-- Describe your changes, the overall approach, the underlying design. These notes will help understanding how your code works. Thanks! --> Design in ADR form for input, exploration of alternatives, and review. ### Contribution Checklist <!-- Before submitting this PR, please make sure: --> - [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] I didn't break anyone 😄
Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
An Architectural Decision (AD) is a justified software design choice that addresses a functional or non-functional requirement that is architecturally significant. An Architectural Decision Record (ADR) captures a single AD and its rationale.
For more information see
How are we using ADR's to track technical decisions?
- Copy docs/decisions/adr-template.md to docs/decisions/NNNN-title-with-dashes.md, where NNNN indicates the next number in sequence.
- Check for existing PR's to make sure you use the correct sequence number.
- There is also a short form template docs/decisions/adr-short-template.md
- Edit NNNN-title-with-dashes.md.
- Status must initially be
proposed - List of
decidersmust include the github ids of the people who will sign off on the decision. - The relevant EM and architect must be listed as deciders or informed of all decisions.
- You should list the names or github ids of all partners who were consulted as part of the decision.
- Keep the list of
decidersshort. You can also list people who wereconsultedorinformedabout the decision.
- Status must initially be
- For each option list the good, neutral and bad aspects of each considered alternative.
- Detailed investigations can be included in the
More Informationsection inline or as links to external documents.
- Detailed investigations can be included in the
- Share your PR with the deciders and other interested parties.
- Deciders must be listed as required reviewers.
- The status must be updated to
acceptedonce a decision is agreed and the date must also be updated. - Approval of the decision is captured using PR approval.
- Decisions can be changed later and superseded by a new ADR. In this case it is useful to record any negative outcomes in the original ADR.