Is there any way to upload files to Agent like in SemanticKernel?

[andreimultescudotware]

Hello,
Previously i used Semantic Kernel to consume an Agent hosted in Azure Ai Foundry, the fallowing code did the trick:

var items = new ChatMessageContentItemCollection();
items.Add(new TextContent(input.Message));
if (input.Files?.Count > 0)
{
	foreach (var file in input.Files)
	{
		var data = [SOME BYTES]

		if (data != null)
		{
			var fileName = Path.GetFileName(file);
			MemoryStream stream = new(data);
			var upload = await _agentsClient.Files.UploadFileAsync(stream, PersistentAgentFilePurpose.Agents, fileName);
			var fileId = upload.Value.Id;
			items.Add(new FileReferenceContent(fileId));
		}
	}
}

ChatMessageContent message = new(AuthorRole.User, items);

Any ideas how this can be achieved in Agent Framework SDK?

[Dimitri Pletschette (dmxplx)]

andreimultescudotware ... a bit late sorry. From what I found, I believe this should be possible using HostedFileContent, which provides a reference to a file hosted by the provider. You can upload the file, get the resulting file_id, and then pass it to the agent as hosted file content. So, roughly, the equivalent would be: Semantic Kernel: FileReferenceContent >Agent Framework: HostedFileContent There’s a short example in the Microsoft Learn documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/python/api/agent-framework-core/agent_framework.hostedfilecontent?view=agent-framework-python-latest)](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/python/api/agent-framework-core/agent_framework.hostedfilecontent?view=agent-framework-python-latest:

from agent_framework import HostedFileContent

file_content = HostedFileContent(file_id="file-abc123")

The Agent Framework docs also list hosted_file as a supported content type for referencing files hosted by the provider.
Hope this helps! If the answer satisfies the question at least partially, feel free to mark it as the solution. Others might still be able to comment. Thanks!