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Deep dive into Semantic Kernel

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If you want to dive into deeper into Semantic Kernel and learn how to use more advanced functionality not explicitly covered in our Learn documentation, we recommend that you check out our concepts samples that individually demonstrate how to use specific features within the SDK.

Each of the SDKs (Python, C#, and Java) have their own set of samples that walk through the SDK. Each sample is modelled as a test case within our main repo, so you're always guaranteed that the sample will work with the latest nightly version of the SDK! Below are most of the samples you'll find in our concepts project.

View all C# concept samples on GitHub

View all Python concept samples on GitHub

Leverage the kernel syntax examples on GitHub

Category Sample Name Link
Agents ComplexChat_NestedShopper Link
Legacy_AgentAuthoring Link
Legacy_AgentCharts Link
Legacy_AgentCollaboration Link
Legacy_AgentDelegation Link
Legacy_AgentTools Link
Legacy_Agents Link
Legacy_ChatCompletionAgent Link
MixedChat_Agents Link
OpenAIAssistant_ChartMaker Link
OpenAIAssistant_CodeInterpreter Link
OpenAIAssistant_Retrieval Link
Audio to text OpenAI_AudioToText Link
Automatic function calling Gemini_FunctionCalling Link
OpenAI_FunctionCalling Link
Semantic caching SemanticCachingWithFilters Link
Chat completion AzureOpenAIWithData_ChatCompletion Link
ChatHistoryAuthorName Link
ChatHistorySerialization Link
Connectors_CustomHttpClient Link
Connectors_KernelStreaming Link
Connectors_WithMultipleLLMs Link
Google_GeminiChatCompletion Link
Google_GeminiChatCompletionStreaming Link
Google_GeminiGetModelResult Link
Google_GeminiVision Link
OpenAI_ChatCompletion Link
OpenAI_ChatCompletionMultipleChoices Link
OpenAI_ChatCompletionStreaming Link
OpenAI_ChatCompletionStreamingMultipleChoices Link
OpenAI_ChatCompletionWithVision Link
OpenAI_CustomAzureOpenAIClient Link
OpenAI_UsingLogitBias Link
OpenAI_FunctionCalling Link
MistralAI_ChatPrompt Link
MistralAI_FunctionCalling Link
MistralAI_StreamingFunctionCalling Link
Dependency injection HttpClient_Registration Link
HttpClient_Resiliency Link
Kernel_Building Link
Kernel_Injecting Link
Filtering AutoFunctionInvocationFiltering Link
FunctionInvocationFiltering Link
Legacy_KernelHooks Link
PromptRenderFiltering Link
RetryWithFilters Link
PIIDetectionWithFilters Link
Plugin functions Arguments Link
FunctionResult_Metadata Link
FunctionResult_StronglyTyped Link
MethodFunctions Link
MethodFunctions_Advanced Link
MethodFunctions_Types Link
PromptFunctions_Inline Link
PromptFunctions_MultipleArguments Link
Image to text HuggingFace_ImageToText Link
Local models HuggingFace_ChatCompletionWithTGI Link
MultipleProviders_ChatCompletion Link
Memory HuggingFace_EmbeddingGeneration Link
MemoryStore_CustomReadOnly Link
SemanticTextMemory_Building Link
TextChunkerUsage Link
TextChunkingAndEmbedding Link
TextMemoryPlugin_GeminiEmbeddingGeneration Link
TextMemoryPlugin_MultipleMemoryStore Link
Planning FunctionCallStepwisePlanning Link
HandlebarsPlanning Link
Plugins ApiManifestBasedPlugins Link
ConversationSummaryPlugin Link
CreatePluginFromOpenAI_AzureKeyVault Link
CreatePluginFromOpenApiSpec_Github Link
CreatePluginFromOpenApiSpec_Jira Link
CustomMutablePlugin Link
DescribeAllPluginsAndFunctions Link
GroundednessChecks Link
ImportPluginFromGrpc Link
OpenAIPlugins Link
Prompt templates ChatCompletionPrompts Link
ChatWithPrompts Link
LiquidPrompts Link
MultiplePromptTemplates Link
PromptFunctionsWithChatGPT Link
TemplateLanguage Link
PromptyFunction Link
Retrieval augmented generation WithFunctionCallingStepwisePlanner Link
WithPlugins Link
Search BingAndGooglePlugins Link
MyAzureAISearchPlugin Link
WebSearchQueriesPlugin Link
Text generation Custom_TextGenerationService Link
HuggingFace_TextGeneration Link
OpenAI_TextGenerationStreaming Link
Text to audio OpenAI_TextToAudio Link
Text to image OpenAI_TextToImage Link
Features Description Link
AutoFunctionCalling Using Auto Function Calling to allow function call capable models to invoke Kernel Functions automatically Link
ChatCompletion Using ChatCompletion messaging capable service with models Link
Filtering Creating and using Filters Link
Functions Invoking Method or Prompt functions with Kernel Link
Grounding An example of how to perform LLM grounding Link
Logging Showing how to set up logging Link
Memory Using Memory AI concepts Link
On Your Data Examples of using AzureOpenAI On Your Data Link
Planners Showing the uses of Planners Link
Plugins Different ways of creating and using Plugins Link
PromptTemplates Using Templates with parametrization for Prompt rendering Link
RAG Different ways of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Link
Search Using search services information Link
Service Selector Shows how to create and use a custom service selector class. Link
Setup How to setup environment variables for Semantic Kernel Link
TextGeneration Using TextGeneration capable service with models Link