Microsoft 365 Agents SDK is a C# and .NET software development kit for building agents that interact with users across Microsoft 365, Teams, Copilot Studio, Webchat, and selected third-party services. Developers use it to handle conversations, coordinate requests, generate responses, and enable collaboration between agents. The catalogue entries provide coding-agent instructions and agents for working with this SDK.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/Agents-for-net. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/Agents-for-net/main/.github/instructions/cloudadapter-pipeline.instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/Agents-for-netWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/agents-for-net/cloudadapter-pipeline)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/agents-for-net/cloudadapter-pipeline"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/agents-for-net/cloudadapter-pipeline/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/agents-for-net/cloudadapter-pipeline"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/agents-for-net/cloudadapter-pipeline.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00412 | $0.00412 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00165 | $0.00165 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00082 | $0.00082 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00041 | $0.00041 |
Grade A, and why
Agents-for-net cloudadapter-pipeline.instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
CloudAdapter Pipeline Context
When working on the request processing pipeline, delivery modes, or response handling, read docs/full-cloudadapter-sequence-diagram.md for the full mermaid sequence diagram.
Key Design Points
- Normal delivery:
HostResponseAsyncreturnsfalse→ response sent viaConnectorClient. HTTP returns 202 immediately (fire-and-forget path). - Stream delivery:
HostResponseAsyncreturnstrue→ response queued intoChannelResponseQueue→ HTTP thread writes SSE events directly toHttpResponse.Body(blocking path). ChannelResponseQueueis a producer/consumer bridge using an unboundedChannel<IActivity>between the background agent thread and the HTTP response thread.- Middleware chain is recursive — each middleware calls
next()to invoke the next in the pipeline.
Related Source Files
| Component | Path |
|---|---|
| CloudAdapter | src/libraries/Hosting/AspNetCore/CloudAdapter.cs |
| ChannelResponseQueue | src/libraries/Hosting/AspNetCore/ChannelResponseQueue.cs |
| ActivityResponseHandler (SSE writer) | src/libraries/Hosting/AspNetCore/ActivityResponseHandler.cs |
| ChannelServiceAdapterBase | src/libraries/Builder/Microsoft.Agents.Builder/ChannelServiceAdapterBase.cs |
| TurnContext | src/libraries/Builder/Microsoft.Agents.Builder/TurnContext.cs |
| MiddlewareSet | src/libraries/Builder/Microsoft.Agents.Builder/MiddlewareSet.cs |
| Sequence Diagram | docs/full-cloudadapter-sequence-diagram.md |
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2mo ago First seen · 34 lines · 412 tokens per session scan A f0d523360d92
Agents-for-net cloudadapter-pipeline.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/Agents-for-net (183 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 412 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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