Is Semantic Kernel Agent framework generally available?

[ultrasimulation]

Following this link and some announcements from build: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/semantic-kernel/semantic-kernel-agents-are-now-generally-available/ seems that SK Agent FX is GA.

When I navigate the docs in pages like these:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/frameworks/agent/agent-functions
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/frameworks/agent/agent-rag
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/frameworks/agent/agent-memory
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/frameworks/agent/agent-orchestration

There are banners that points to release candidate or experimental stage. Is it doc outdated?

[moonbox3]

Our single agent abstraction for the ChatCompletionAgent is at GA. Other single agents, like the AzureAIAgent, BedrockAgent or OpenAIAssistantAgent are still experimental/in preview. Our agent orchestration patterns are marked experimental - and will be progressing towards preview and then GA over the next few months - as we take feedback from the community and make sure the patterns support the needs of the developers.

[ultrasimulation]

Hello @moonbox3, thanks for the answers.
Considering only GA features of SK, what is the added value of having in GA just the:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/frameworks/agent/agent-types/chat-completion-agent
compared with what I can already achieve with:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/concepts/ai-services/chat-completion?

Having just that object seems to me to benefit just the 1% of what an agent framework should provide.

[moonbox3]

Yes, the ChatCompletionAgent and Chat Completion are essentially the same thing; although, the ChatCompletionAgent is an abstraction as part of the agent framework. If one wants to orchestrate agents with certain patterns - sequential, concurrent, group chat, magentic-one they will want to use the ChatCompletionAgent. I understand that is still reaching into the "not GA bucket," but the idea is that we're doing our best to get the orchestration patterns through to preview and then to GA as soon as we can.

The idea, too, of just having the ChatCompletionAgent in GA means that many of the abstractions around our agent (base) - what methods, inputs to those invocation methods, the AgentThread, etc, are set in stone and aren't breaking in the future.

[ultrasimulation]

I am aware about your effort to merge the core of SK and Autogen: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/semantic-kernel/semantic-kernel-and-autogen-part-2/ and I am aware that SK is the choice when it comes to enterprise support.
The orchestration implementation (sequential, concurrent, group chat, magentic-one) are implemented in both frameworks, which framework implementation is to be considered more mature for target the production?

https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/0.2/docs/tutorial/conversation-patterns/#sequential-chats - no message about "experimental stage"
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/frameworks/agent/agent-orchestration/sequential?pivots=programming-language-csharp - message about "experimental stage"

This question is because I need to choose the right framework for the production.

[moonbox3]

@ultrasimulation SK is the right framework for production.