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AI Agents

ModuleCrestApps.OrchardCore.AI.Agent
Manifest IDCrestApps.OrchardCore.AI.Agent

The Orchard agent module surfaces agent profiles inside Orchard Core so they can participate in module-driven AI experiences such as profile-based chat, A2A hosting, and other Orchard-managed orchestration flows.

What this module adds in Orchard Core​

  • Orchard-aware AI tools for system, recipe, tenant, content, role, user, workflow, analytics, and communication scenarios
  • agent-related profile editing support through the Orchard AI profile experience
  • compatibility with Orchard modules such as A2A host, recipes, tenants, content types, contents, and workflows when those features are enabled

How to use it in Orchard​

  1. Enable AI Agents together with the base AI features.
  2. Go to Artificial Intelligence -> Profiles.
  3. Create or edit the AI profile that should participate in agent scenarios.
  4. Enable the related Orchard features if you want additional tool categories to appear.

The exact tool set available to agents depends on which Orchard modules are enabled. For example, tenant-management tools only light up when Orchard tenants support is enabled, and recipe tools depend on Orchard recipes support.

For the complete Orchard-specific AI function catalog, including the feature that enables each function and its description, see AI Tools.

Orchard-specific role of agent profiles​

In Orchard Core, agent profiles are useful when you want:

  • specialized AI capabilities that can be attached to other AI experiences
  • locally hosted agents that can be exposed through A2A Host
  • Orchard-aware AI automation over content, tenants, recipes, roles, users, and workflows

Feature composition​

The agent module becomes more useful as you add Orchard features:

  • Recipes adds recipe-related tools
  • Tenants adds tenant-management tools
  • Contents and Content Types add content-management tools
  • Workflows adds workflow-related tools

Shared framework documentation​

The reusable agent model, agent invocation patterns, and delegation concepts are documented in CrestApps.Core: