Accessible AI Bots Project

The Accessible AI Bots Project is an open source set of opinionated libraries designed to make it easier to build capable bots in .NET using the Microsoft Bot Framework SDK.

View the Accessible AI Bots Project on GitHub

Project Vision

The vision for the project is to provide a variety of capabilities that can be added to any bot developed using v4 of the Microsoft Bot Framework SDK.

The Accessible AI Bots Project is moderately opinionated in how classes and objects are structured in order to provide the best experience for people familiar with object-oriented programming in .NET but new to bot development.

The libraries are going to have the most immediate applicability for people building bots oriented around searching and presenting content and helping users find what they’re looking for, simply because these are the types of bots it is being used to build right now.

Packages

Presently there are four key pieces of the AccessibleAI Bots Project:

All packages will be made available both on GitHub and via NuGet, though packages may be marked as pre-release on NuGet for the time being.

Project Status

Right now this library is being radically expanded as new capabilities are added and more capabilities are pulled out of the base bot I created. I’m also trying to expand the documentation for what’s there. Adapting this library is going to be a largely unstable experience at the moment with radical changes happening all the time, but by late 2022 it should be mature enough to be ready for public use.

Expect massive amounts of change during this phase. Classes may be renamed, moved, deleted. Entire projects may be removed, renamed, or merged together. There may be bugs.

Supporting the Project

If you are interested in this project and want to help offset some of the hosting and experimentation costs incurred by the project, please consider sponsoring this project on GitHub.