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Microsoft Agents Hosting - Dialogs

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Dialog system for the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK. Provides waterfall dialogs, prompts, choice recognition, and multi-turn conversation management.

This library is a port of the botbuilder-dialogs library to the new Microsoft 365 Agents SDK. It provides the same dialog primitives (WaterfallDialog, ComponentDialog, DialogSet, DialogContext) and prompts (TextPrompt, NumberPrompt, ChoicePrompt, ConfirmPrompt, DateTimePrompt, OAuthPrompt, etc.) with updated imports and patterns for the new SDK.

What is this?

This library is part of the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK for Python - a comprehensive framework for building enterprise-grade conversational AI agents. The dialogs library enables developers to structure multi-turn conversations with reusable, composable dialog primitives.

Release Notes

Version Date Release Notes
1.4.0 2026-08-18 1.4.0 Release Notes
1.3.0 2026-07-30 1.3.0 Release Notes
1.2.0 2026-07-17 1.2.0 Release Notes
1.1.0 2026-06-19 1.1.0 Release Notes
1.0.0 2026-05-22 1.0.0 Release Notes

Packages Overview

We offer the following PyPI packages to create conversational experiences based on Agents:

Package Name PyPI Version Description
microsoft-agents-activity PyPI Types and validators implementing the Activity protocol spec.
microsoft-agents-hosting-core PyPI Core library for Microsoft Agents hosting.
microsoft-agents-hosting-aiohttp PyPI Configures aiohttp to run the Agent.
microsoft-agents-hosting-fastapi PyPI Configures fastapi to run the Agent.
microsoft-agents-hosting-msteams PyPI Provides classes to host an Agent for Teams.
microsoft-agents-hosting-dialogs PyPI Dialog system with waterfall dialogs, prompts, and multi-turn conversation management.
microsoft-agents-hosting-slack PyPI Provides classes to host an Agent for Slack.
microsoft-agents-storage-blob PyPI Extension to use Azure Blob as storage.
microsoft-agents-storage-cosmos PyPI Extension to use CosmosDB as storage.
microsoft-agents-authentication-msal PyPI MSAL-based authentication for Microsoft Agents.
microsoft-agents-authentication-entra-auth-sidecar PyPI Credential-free Entra ID Agent ID authentication via the sidecar.

Key Features

  • WaterfallDialog: Sequential step-by-step conversation flows
  • ComponentDialog: Composable, encapsulated dialog components
  • Prompts: Built-in prompts for text, numbers, choices, confirmations, dates, attachments, and OAuth
  • Choice recognition: Locale-aware choice matching and recognition
  • Dialog memory: Scoped memory management (conversation, user, dialog, class, settings)
  • DialogManager: High-level dialog orchestration with state management

Installation

pip install microsoft-agents-hosting-dialogs

Quick Start

from microsoft_agents.hosting.dialogs import (
    WaterfallDialog,
    WaterfallStepContext,
    DialogSet,
    DialogTurnStatus,
)
from microsoft_agents.hosting.dialogs.prompts import TextPrompt, PromptOptions
from microsoft_agents.hosting.core import ConversationState, MemoryStorage

storage = MemoryStorage()
conversation_state = ConversationState(storage)
dialog_state = conversation_state.create_property("DialogState")
dialogs = DialogSet(dialog_state)

async def step1(step: WaterfallStepContext):
    return await step.prompt(
        "text_prompt",
        PromptOptions(prompt=MessageFactory.text("What is your name?"))
    )

async def step2(step: WaterfallStepContext):
    await step.context.send_activity(f"Hello, {step.result}!")
    return await step.end_dialog()

dialogs.add(TextPrompt("text_prompt"))
dialogs.add(WaterfallDialog("main", [step1, step2]))

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