sk-researcher

Using Semantic Kernel to power a research agent that will work on your behalf to research a topic

Pre-requisites

You will Azure OpenAI or OpenAI keys. In addition it's recommended that you have a deployed version of the websearch-plugin and webscraper-plugin available

Usage

Assuming you will be running the app locally, enter your keys and the path to the websearch-plugin and webscraper-plugin into appsettings.json (or even better, create a copy of appsettings.json and rename it to appsettings.development.json).

Then edit the research request Program.cs to the topic you would like to research and run the code!

Running on Azure

The configuration convention is a little tricky when it comes to collections, to reference your plugins you will need to follow this pattern:

name: 'AppConfig:Plugins:0:Name'
value: 'WebSearch'

name: 'AppConfig:Plugins:0:Url'
value: '<plugin url goes here>'

name: 'AppConfig:Plugins:1:Name'
value: 'WebScraper'

name: 'AppConfig:Plugins:1:Url'
value: '<plugin url goes here>'

//the next plugin would use the number 2, and so on...

For extra fun

Here are two additional plugins to configure for the researcher to use:

azblob-aiplugin

worddoc-aiplugin

Then make a slight modification in ResearchService.cs so that instead of:

var researchRequest = $"I would like to learn about {topic}" +
            "The more detail you are able to provide the better. " +
            "If you do a web search, don't just take the summary from the search results, scrape each linked page and summarise for best context." +
            "While the opinion of a journalist is interesting, bias towards original sources where possible.";

You have:

var researchRequest = $"I would like to learn about {topic}" +
            "The more detail you are able to provide the better. " +
            "If you do a web search, don't just take the summary from the search results, scrape each linked page and summarise for best context." +
            "While the opinion of a journalist is interesting, bias towards original sources where possible. " +
            "Please write your analysis to a Word Document stored on an Azure Blob";

Now when you run the agent, you will be given the URI to a SAS protected blob on Azure, with the analysis contained within :)