FabrCore.Host.AzureStorage 2.0.0

FabrCore

Build AI agents in .NET. Run them as distributed Orleans actors. Connect them to your applications, tools, and knowledge.

FabrCore combines Microsoft Agent Framework with Orleans to provide agent hosting, conversations, tool execution, inter-agent messaging, and application integration. Start with a standalone host and Surface chat UI, or configure SQL for persistent state, access control, long-term memory, and GraphRAG.

Built by Vulcan365 AI. Explore fabrcore.ai and the guides and tutorials.

Upgrading from 1.8 to 2.0? This breaking release consolidates packages, changes database and ACL configuration, and replaces A2A 0.3 with A2A 1.0. Read the 2.0 release notes and migration guide before upgrading.

What's new in 2.0

• Simpler hosting: SQL Server, Memory, GraphRAG, and service contracts are integrated into Host, Core, and SDK, with explicit standalone and SQL modes and relational ACL migration.
• Connected agents: optional user/application connections, authenticated MCP, and remote Work IQ and Copilot Studio agents, plus shared Entra identity across inbound channels.
• Administration and diagnostics: agent and blueprint management, isolated diagnostic conversations, paged monitoring, evidence exports, and optional SQL monitoring.
• Visible runtime configuration: cloud reports distinguish desired, resolved, and observed settings; named code rules and previews support independent cloud servers.
• C# scripting plugins: developer-selected packages, structured results and artifacts, and a fresh worker process per call. Process separation is not a security sandbox.
• More reliable context and knowledge: corrected working-context and history compaction, expanded scoped Memory and GraphRAG ingestion, and stronger package/SQL release validation.

See the release notes for compatibility changes, defaults, and limitations.

What you can build

• Conversational and task-oriented agents with model access, tools, plugins, MCP servers, timers, reminders, and structured message handling.
• Multi-agent workflows with private internal specialists, background delegation, model-managed todos, plan/execute modes, bounded loops, and blueprint-defined squads.
• Knowledge-backed applications with explicitly scoped Memory and GraphRAG in SQL mode.
• Interactive workspaces using Surface: Blazor chat, command center, Adaptive Cards, and squads without requiring a Forge account.
• Connected agents through HTTP, WebSocket v2, A2A, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Teams.
• Optional authenticated connections for user/app credentials, Entra Agent ID, authenticated MCP, and handle-addressable Copilot agents. See connections and Microsoft integration.
• Observable execution with message and LLM monitoring, token usage, security audit, and optional signed execution evidence.
• Optional C# scripting through reusable plugins with developer-selected NuGet packages and separate worker processes. See scripting plugins for setup and execution boundaries.

The SDK uses Microsoft.Extensions.AI abstractions for model access. Context management preserves task instructions and tool-call relationships, bounds older tool output, and validates historical summaries before saving them. See compaction correctness and harness efficiency for behavior and tuning guidance.

Start standalone, add persistence when needed

Standalone mode retains privileged administration authentication and storage/session ownership checks. The hosting application must authenticate callers and establish trusted user handles for APIs that consume forwarded identity headers; SQL-mode ACL does not replace authentication. Use SQL-mode ACL enforcement when hosting mutually untrusted principals. Default standalone runtime state does not survive a process restart.

Supply ConnectionStrings:FabrCore through application configuration or a secret provider to enable the SQL feature set. The database must already exist and support the SQL Server 2025 / Azure SQL vector and graph schemas. Configure the required chat and embedding models as well.

{
  "ConnectionStrings": {
    "FabrCore": "Server=localhost;Database=fabrcore;Integrated Security=true;TrustServerCertificate=true"
  }
}

This example uses local-development connection settings. See standalone and SQL modes for deployment configuration, existing split databases, schema provisioning, and Azure/custom Orleans providers. Database selection requires a restart; a failed SQL startup never silently becomes a standalone host. Host includes SQL services, but standalone startup does not activate them. SDK-only agent libraries have no SQL implementation dependency.

Try the sample

Install PowerShell 7 and the .NET SDK selected by global.json (10.0.302, with patch roll-forward), then use a fresh checkout:

git clone https://github.com/vulcan365/FabrCore.git
cd FabrCore
Copy-Item samples/FabrCore.SampleApp/fabrcore.sample.json samples/FabrCore.SampleApp/fabrcore.json

Edit samples/FabrCore.SampleApp/fabrcore.json and configure the default model and its API-key alias. Enable only the integrations you intend to use. Local fabrcore.json files are gitignored.

dotnet run --project samples/FabrCore.SampleApp --launch-profile http

Open http://localhost:5248/surface. The sample runs Host and Surface together with localhost Orleans, a development fallback identity, and in-memory demo data. SQL, Forge, and Microsoft 365 credentials are not required for this standalone experience. Model calls use your configured provider.

For a C# scripting example, select scripting-demo in Surface and ask it to calculate demo sales revenue by category. It uses a real worker process and developer-selected Newtonsoft.Json package. See the SampleApp guide and test for expected results, first-run preparation, and trusted-local execution requirements.

Add FabrCore to your application

Install the host in an ASP.NET Core application:

dotnet add package FabrCore.Host

using FabrCore.Host;

var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
builder.AddFabrCoreServer();

var app = builder.Build();
app.UseFabrCoreServer();
app.Run();

Host brings SDK and Core transitively. Put model configuration in fabrcore.json; put host settings such as FabrCore:Database and connection strings in application configuration. For a separate agent class library, reference FabrCore.Sdk.

An agent handles messages through FabrCoreAgentProxy:

using FabrCore.Core;
using FabrCore.Sdk;
using Microsoft.Agents.AI;

[AgentAlias("my-assistant")]
public sealed class MyAssistantAgent(
    AgentConfiguration config,
    IServiceProvider services,
    IFabrCoreAgentHost host) : FabrCoreAgentProxy(config, services, host)
{
    private ChatClientAgentResult chat = null!;

    public override async Task OnInitialize()
    {
        chat = await CreateChatClientAgent(
            chatClientConfigName: "default",
            threadId: "main");
    }

    public override async Task<AgentMessage> OnMessage(AgentMessage message)
    {
        var result = await chat.Agent.RunAsync(message.Message ?? "", chat.Session);
        var reply = message.Response();
        reply.Message = result.Text;
        return reply;
    }
}

Configure a default model, reference the agent assembly from the host, and provision my-assistant through a blueprint or the Host API. Application assemblies and referenced FabrCore dependencies are discovered automatically. For todos, delegation, and completion loops, use the FabrCore harness.

Packages

The 2.0 release publishes all thirteen packages at the same version. Install the optional service packages you need and enable their features explicitly. Connections require user authentication and credential-protection configuration; scripting requires runtime registration and prepared worker dependencies. See the guides below before enabling either feature.

Most applications connect through the HTTP API or WebSocket client. Agent creation and blueprint provisioning remain HTTP operations. A2A endpoints are built into Host and enabled through configuration; the Microsoft 365 channel is a separate integration package.

The former FabrCore.Host.SqlServer, FabrCore.Services.Contracts, FabrCore.Services.Memory, and FabrCore.Services.GraphRag packages are retired in 2.0. Their implementations and contracts have moved into Host, Core, and SDK. See the package migration table.

Documentation

FabrCore is open source and works without Forge. Forge is the separate commercial operations and governance product for fleet administration, identity/team management, incidents, and configuration distribution. Cloud Server integration is optional.

Build and test

The current source targets .NET 10, Orleans 10.3.1, and Microsoft Agent Framework 1.20.0.

See Orleans 10.3 adoption for contract checks, storage compatibility, telemetry, and optional durable SQL streams (preview provider). With PowerShell 7 installed:

./scripts/Build.ps1                  # Release build, deterministic tests, and all configured packages
./scripts/Build.ps1 -Version 2.0.0-blah # Build and pack an explicit version
./scripts/Test-BuildScripts.ps1      # Validate inventory and release-script behavior

Additional local checks cover SQL Server 2025 integration, real scripting workers and consumers of the actual packages, including the C# examples above. Run them explicitly when needed; they are not separate GitHub publishing jobs:

./scripts/Build.ps1 -Version 2.0.0-local.verify -OutputDirectory ./artifacts/packages
./scripts/Test-ReleaseSql.ps1 -Container sql2025 -PackageDirectory ./artifacts/packages -Version 2.0.0-local.verify
dotnet test src/FabrCore.Scripting.Tests/FabrCore.Scripting.Tests.csproj --configuration Release --filter 'TestCategory=Integration'

The SQL runner creates and removes its own test databases inside the selected container. Live model evaluations remain separate and can incur provider charges. See build instructions for prerequisites, reports, package feeds, and release previews.

Run Release-Develop.ps1, then Release-Major.ps1, Release-Minor.ps1 or Release-Patch.ps1. A single GitHub Actions job builds, tests, packs and publishes NuGet packages from the resulting vX.Y.Z tag. Ordinary branch pushes do not start separate CI workflows. Release-Major.ps1 calculates the next major version from stable Git tags and requires a clean main branch; use -DryRun to preview the locally known version. Pack-Local.ps1 skips tests, and Push-NuGet.ps1 immediately unlists uploaded packages for prerelease testing. Use the tagged release workflow for the public 2.0.0 release.

Contributing and license

Issues and pull requests are welcome at vulcan365/FabrCore. Please include reproduction steps and relevant tests for behavior changes.

FabrCore is licensed under Apache 2.0. See NOTICE for attribution requirements.