Microsoft.Extensions.AI.IChatClient

[jcmag]

Confirm this is a feature request for the .NET library and not the underlying OpenAI API

• This is a feature request for the .NET library

Describe the feature or improvement you are requesting

Does this library support the Microsoft.Extensions.AI.IChatClient interface?
(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.extensions.ai.ichatclient?view=net-9.0-pp)

If not, will it be suppored in the future?

Additional context

No response

[stephentoub]

Right now it's available as a wrapper via https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.OpenAI. From the perspective of the .NET team, our aim is for all LLM clients (like openai/openai-dotnet) to provide their own implementation of these abstractions. That's happening already with a bunch of nuget packages, and our ideal is that happens with openai/openai-dotnet as well, effectively with the implementation from https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.OpenAI moving into this library and then https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Extensions.AI.OpenAI being obsoleted as a temporary stop-gap. Whether/when that happens is up to the maintainers of openai/openai-dotnet.