azure-ai-travel-agents: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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azure-ai-travel-agents copilot-instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from Azure-Samples/azure-ai-travel-agents. It costs 1,204 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for an Azure travel-agent platform made from separate services for trip planning, recommendations, and customer questions. The services communicate through APIs, while an Angular web interface connects to the main gateway.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when building, running, or changing the platform's API gateway, travel tools, web interface, Docker setup, or cloud infrastructure.
Why use it?
They explain the repository structure, available orchestration options, and standard commands so agents can work in the correct service and workflow.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

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This is Azure-Samples/azure-ai-travel-agents's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on azure-ai-travel-agents itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything azure-ai-travel-agents configures →

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Copilot Instructions for azure-ai-travel-agents

Big Picture Architecture

  • The platform is a modular AI travel agent system, composed of multiple microservices ("tools") for itinerary planning, destination recommendations, customer queries, and more.
  • The main API gateway is in packages/api/, with three orchestration options:
    • LangChain.js (current default) at packages/api/src/orchestrator/langchain/
    • LlamaIndex.TS (available alternative) at packages/api/src/orchestrator/llamaindex/
    • Microsoft Agent Framework (Python alternative) at packages/api-python/
  • Each tool is isolated in its own directory under packages/mcp-servers/ and communicates via HTTP APIs or Model Context Protocol (MCP).
  • The frontend UI is in packages/ui/ (Angular + Tailwind CSS), talking to the API gateway.
  • Infrastructure is managed with Bicep templates in infra/ and setup scripts in infra/hooks/.

Developer Workflows

  • Build & Run All Services:
    Run ./run.sh from the repo root to build and start all services locally via Docker Compose.
  • Service-Specific Development:
    Each tool under packages/mcp-servers/ can be built and run independently using its language's standard commands (e.g., npm, mvnw, python).
  • UI Development:
    Run npm start in packages/ui/ for local frontend development.
  • Infrastructure Deployment:
    Use Bicep files in infra/ and scripts in infra/hooks/ for Azure deployments.

Project-Specific Conventions

  • Service Boundaries:
    Each tool is strictly separated; cross-service communication uses HTTP APIs or MCP protocol, not direct imports.
  • Orchestration Options:
    Three orchestrators available (all work with the same MCP tools):
    • LangChain.js (TypeScript) - Current default, uses LangGraph supervisor pattern with @langchain/mcp-adapters
    • LlamaIndex.TS (TypeScript) - Available alternative, good for RAG use cases
    • Microsoft Agent Framework (Python) - Alternative for Python-native teams
  • Configuration:
    Shared config files are in the repo root (azure.yaml, repomix.config.json). Service-specific configs are in their respective directories.
  • Testing:
    Tests are colocated with source files or follow language-specific conventions (e.g., .spec.ts for TypeScript, test/ for Python).
  • Documentation:
    Key architectural docs are in docs/ (see docs/technical-architecture.md, docs/deployment-architecture.md, docs/orchestration.md).

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