autogen/dotnet/website/articles/Installation.md

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AutoGen.Net provides the following packages, you can choose to install one or more of them based on your needs:

• AutoGen: The one-in-all package. This package has dependencies over AutoGen.Core, AutoGen.OpenAI, AutoGen.LMStudio, AutoGen.SemanticKernel and AutoGen.SourceGenerator.
• AutoGen.Core: The core package, this package provides the abstraction for message type, agent and group chat.
• AutoGen.OpenAI: This package provides the integration agents over openai models.
• AutoGen.Mistral: This package provides the integration agents for Mistral.AI models.
• AutoGen.LMStudio: This package provides the integration agents from LM Studio.
• AutoGen.SemanticKernel: This package provides the integration agents over semantic kernel.
• AutoGen.SourceGenerator: This package carries a source generator that adds support for type-safe function definition generation.
• AutoGen.DotnetInteractive: This packages carries dotnet interactive support to execute dotnet code snippet.

Note

Help me choose

• If you just want to install one package and enjoy the core features of AutoGen, choose AutoGen.
• If you want to leverage AutoGen's abstraction only and want to avoid introducing any other dependencies, like Azure.AI.OpenAI or Semantic Kernel, choose AutoGen.Core. You will need to implement your own agent, but you can still use AutoGen core features like group chat, built-in message type, workflow and middleware.
• If you want to use AutoGen with openai, choose AutoGen.OpenAI, similarly, choose AutoGen.LMStudio or AutoGen.SemanticKernel if you want to use agents from LM Studio or semantic kernel.
• If you just want the type-safe source generation for function call and don't want any other features, which even include the AutoGen's abstraction, choose AutoGen.SourceGenerator.

Then, install the package using the following command:

dotnet add package AUTOGEN_PACKAGES

Consume nightly build

To consume nightly build, you can add one of the following feeds to your NuGet.config or global nuget config:

• : https://nuget.pkg.github.com/microsoft/index.json
• : https://www.myget.org/F/agentchat/api/v3/index.json
• : https://devdiv.pkgs.visualstudio.com/DevDiv/_packaging/AutoGen/nuget/v3/index.json

To add a local NuGet.config, create a file named NuGet.config in the root of your project and add the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <packageSources>
    <clear />
    <!-- dotnet-tools contains Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.VisualStudio package, which is used by AutoGen.DotnetInteractive -->
    <add key="dotnet-tools" value="https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_packaging/dotnet-tools/nuget/v3/index.json" />
    <add key="AutoGen" value="$(FEED_URL)" /> <!-- replace $(FEED_URL) with the feed url -->
    <!-- other feeds -->
  </packageSources>
  <disabledPackageSources />
</configuration>

To add the feed to your global nuget config. You can do this by running the following command in your terminal:

dotnet nuget add source FEED_URL --name AutoGen

# dotnet-tools contains Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.VisualStudio package, which is used by AutoGen.DotnetInteractive
dotnet nuget add source https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_packaging/dotnet-tools/nuget/v3/index.json --name dotnet-tools

Once you have added the feed, you can install the nightly-build package using the following command:

dotnet add package AUTOGEN_PACKAGES VERSION