Upgrade to Semantic Kernel 1.4

[glahaye]

Motivation and Context

Chat Copilot hasn't been upgraded to SK 1 and this hampers development.

Description

Upgrade to SK 1.4. It has OpenAI's function calling working but, other than that, no planning functionality.

Decision to remove planners:

• The old action, sequential and stepwise planners are deprecated
• The function-calling capabilities baked in OpenAI obsoleted most of their use
• The code required to support planners as that functionality existed vastly needed to be re-written
• Instead of re-writing that code and then finally merging the upgrade to main, the code was removed so that those not requiring planning could move on to the latest version of SK while those depending on planning can stay on the older CC version until planners are added back in (if this is eventually done - depending on demand and the amount of work we want to put in supporting CC)

Contribution Checklist

• The code builds clean without any errors or warnings
• The PR follows the Contribution Guidelines and the pre-submission formatting script raises no violations
• All unit tests pass, and I have added new tests where possible
• I didn't break anyone 😄

[ezar]

Thanks!!!

[ezar]

Do you remove planner's kernel?

[glahaye]

Do you remove planner's kernel?

Yes. The idea is that OpenAI's function-calling can figure out when to call functions without requiring a plan to do so.

Let me know if you think the lack of explicit planner will be a problem.

[ezar]

@glahaye I have tried to use the Karna and Websercher plugins, but since the plan does not activate, they do not launch these and OpenAI responds directly. Is this the expected workflow?

I had to correct some exceptions that were thrown when trying to use the chat. For example, the duplication of the chatid in the list. Resolved using last commit.

Thank you very much because thanks to this project I can understand much more about the functioning of SK.

[glahaye]

@glahaye I have tried to use the Karna and Websercher plugins, but since the plan does not activate, they do not launch these and OpenAI responds directly. Is this the expected workflow?

I am trying to fix the automatic function-calling today. When it works, plugins should automatically be invoked when they are relevant.

I had to correct some exceptions that were thrown when trying to use the chat. For example, the duplication of the chatid in the list. Resolved using last commit.

If you encounter problems, please feel free to enter them in this PR so that I can address them.

Thank you very much because thanks to this project I can understand much more about the functioning of SK.

My pleasure!

[ezar]

@glahaye I have tried to use the Karna and Websercher plugins, but since the plan does not activate, they do not launch these and OpenAI responds directly. Is this the expected workflow?

I am trying to fix the automatic function-calling today. When it works, plugins should automatically be invoked when they are relevant.

I am trying to use the websearcher plugin that has the solution, but it seems that it is not able to invoke it. Before migrating to SK 1.4 using the planner, I made the request.
I have tried using the Klarna plugin and it seems to work.

[glahaye]

@ezar I'll see what I can do about the websearcher plugin. I'm not officially given any time for this project anymore so it might take a bit :/