{"categories":[{"label":"Application Frameworks","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development-libraries-application-frameworks/2"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides core types and schemas implementing the Activity protocol for building conversational AI agents across Microsoft 365 platforms like Teams, Copilot Studio, and web chat.","skillfed_tags":["microsoft-365","conversational-ai","protocol-types"],"use_cases":["Define and validate incoming and outgoing agent messages when building a custom agent handler or middleware.","Construct rich message cards (animations, attachments, interactive elements) to send from an agent to Teams or Copilot Studio.","Parse activity types (message, typing, conversation update, invoke, event) to route and handle different communication patterns.","Integrate a custom agent with the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK by using Activity types as the contract between your logic and the hosting layer.","Validate agent payloads in a testing or integration layer without deploying a full hosting stack."],"what_it_does":"Microsoft Agents Activity is a protocol library that defines the core types and schemas for building conversational AI agents on Microsoft 365 platforms. It implements the Activity protocol\u2014a messaging standard used across Teams, Copilot Studio, and web chat\u2014providing Pydantic-validated data structures for different communication types (messages, typing indicators, conversation updates, events, invokes, and end-of-conversation signals). The library is the foundational layer of the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK; it does not itself host agents or manage conversation state, but rather supplies the type definitions that other packages in the SDK ecosystem (hosting, storage, authentication) build upon.\n\nDevelopers use this package when they need to work with agent activities programmatically\u2014parsing incoming messages, constructing outgoing responses with cards and attachments, or integrating custom logic into an agent pipeline. It is typically installed as a dependency of higher-level hosting packages, but can also be used standalone for activity validation or schema-driven development. The library requires Python 3.10 or later and depends only on pydantic.","worth_installing":"Yes. This is a lightweight, actively maintained protocol library with no security vulnerabilities, permissive licensing, and a single well-known dependency. Install it if you are building agents for Microsoft 365 platforms or integrating with the Microsoft Agents SDK ecosystem. It is also safe to install as a transitive dependency of higher-level hosting packages."},"id":"microsoft-agents-activity","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/microsoft-agents-activity","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/microsoft-agents-activity.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/microsoft-agents-activity/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-07-30","license_spdx":"MIT","license_treatment":"permissive","name":"microsoft-agents-activity","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"A protocol library for Microsoft Agents"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":937638,"position":4689,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.3.0"}