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Features

• Conversational Bot Development - Provides a comprehensive framework for developing conversational bots with interactive chat interfaces and dialogue flows.
• Conversational Agent Development - Enables the development of custom conversational agents designed for multi-turn interactions and automated actions.
• Conversational AI Agents - Implements conversational AI agents designed to engage in human-like dialogue and perform tasks.
• Multi-turn Interaction Managers - Implements stateful management of multi-turn dialogues using sequential prompts to collect user information.
• AI Agent Orchestration - Orchestrates intelligent agents that combine NLU, custom skills, and knowledge bases to automate tasks.
• AI Agent Orchestrators - Enables merging different AI technologies and orchestrators into a single conversational agent.
• Bot Platforms - Provides the platform capabilities to link bots to various communication apps for multi-platform user interaction.
• Conversation State Management - Provides systems for maintaining conversation state and dialogue history to preserve context.
• Multi-Turn Flow Managers - Manages complex conversation flows through sequential prompts and state tracking across multiple user turns.
• Conversation State Persistence - Implements mechanisms for saving and restoring conversation context and state across multiple sessions.
• Intent Extraction Systems - Provides patterns for interpreting user text to extract intents and understand request goals.
• Knowledge-Grounded Question Answering - Enables the integration of knowledge bases to answer natural language queries via factual grounding.
• Multi-Platform Chatbot Development - Provides reference implementations for bot backends that operate across multiple messaging services via a unified schema.
• Channel Message Normalizers - Normalizes messages from different communication channels into a unified internal format for consistent bot processing.
• Adaptive Card Renderers - Renders thumbnails, media, and adaptive cards with buttons to gather user input visually.
• Conversation Context Persistence - Persists user and conversation state across independent request-response cycles using external storage providers.
• Multi-Channel Connectivity Adapters - Connects bots to multiple communication channels by normalizing messages between a common schema and platform-specific requirements.
• Bot Frameworks - Ships a comprehensive library of task-focused code examples for building bots using the Bot Framework SDK.
• Bot State Management - Persists user data and conversation context across interactions to maintain a seamless dialogue experience.
• Conversational Channel Integrations - Connects a single conversational agent to multiple messaging platforms through a normalized schema.
• Multi-Channel AI Deployments - Offers guided setup for deploying AI agents across multiple messaging channels.
• Chat Channel Integrations - Unifies multiple messaging platforms into a single bot instance through a normalized message stream.
• Interactive Chat Components - Implements structured cards and interactive visual components for displaying complex information in chats.
• Consumer-Provider Skill Models - Implements a consumer-provider model that allows primary bots to delegate specialized tasks to external skill bots.
• Skill Export Providers - Allows developers to expose specialized bot functionality as skills that can be consumed by other bots.
• Bot Chat Interfaces - Implements web chat interfaces to validate the functionality and connectivity of deployed bots.
• Low-Code Platforms - Offers guides and templates for building conversational experiences using low-code visual interfaces.
• Bot Interaction Emulators - Provides a local emulator to interrogate messages and trace bot logic before publishing.
• Bot Cloud Deployments - Provides guidance and tools for provisioning and publishing bots to cloud hosting environments.
• Bot Hosting & Deployment - Provides guidance and tools for provisioning cloud resources to host bots for public accessibility.
• Cloud or Self-Hosted Deployments - Supports hosting bots as web services on either public cloud or on-premise infrastructure.
• Bot Web Server Deployments - Implements deployment patterns for hosting bots as web services in the cloud.
• Conversational AI Guides - Provides practical patterns for creating custom agents, multi-turn dialogs, and NLU flows.
• Conversational UI Components - Embeds structured cards and interactive visual components within chat interfaces to display complex information.
• Bot Skill Integrations - Integrates external bot skills to extend the functional capabilities of a primary conversational agent.
• Rich Media Transmission - Implements the transmission of rich media including images, audio, and video across communication platforms.
• Identity and Access Management - Implements managed identities to handle authentication and secure resource access for bot agents.
• User Authentications - Integrates identity providers and federated credentials to secure bot access and manage user identity.
• Bot Framework Patterns - Provides implementation examples for custom middleware, identity authentication, and external skill integration.
• Identity Federation - Integrates federated identity providers to authenticate users and secure bot interactions using managed identity tokens.
• Custom Middleware Implementations - Provides implementation examples for custom middleware to intercept and process bot traffic.
• Request Interception Middleware - Provides middleware for intercepting and processing incoming and outgoing messages to handle logging and translation.
• Bot Emulators - Provides a local emulator to run and debug conversations before deploying to production.
• JSON-Based Card Rendering - Provides a system for rendering rich user interface elements as JSON-based adaptive cards across different platforms.

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