Bot Framework Composer Microsoft Corporation
winget install --id=Microsoft.BotFrameworkComposer -e Bot Framework Composer is an integrated development tool for developers and multi-disciplinary teams to build bots and conversational experiences with the Microsoft Bot Framework. Within this tool, you'll find everything you need to build a sophisticated conversational experience.
Bot Framework Composer is an integrated development tool designed to build bots and conversational experiences using the Microsoft Bot Framework. This tool provides developers and multi-disciplinary teams with everything needed to create sophisticated conversational applications.
Key Features:
- Visual Design Canvas: Create and manage complex dialog flows visually, making it easier to design user interactions.
- Multi-Team Collaboration: Support for team collaboration, allowing multiple users to work together on the same project.
- AI Service Integration: Seamlessly integrate AI services like Azure Cognitive Services to enhance bot capabilities.
- Testing & Debugging Tools: Built-in tools to test and debug conversational flows, ensuring robust performance.
- Extensibility: Ability to extend functionality through custom actions, connectors, and middleware.
- Documentation & Learning Resources: Access to comprehensive documentation and learning materials to help users get started.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for developers, data scientists, and multi-disciplinary teams focused on building conversational AI solutions. Bot Framework Composer enables efficient creation, testing, and deployment of bots, helping teams deliver scalable and intelligent conversational experiences. It can be installed via winget.
README
ARCHIVE NOTICE:
Bot Framework Composer migration to Microsoft Copilot Studio
We are in the process of archiving the Bot Framework Composer and Bot Framework CLI repositories on GitHub. This means that these projects will no longer be updated or maintained. Customers using these tools will not be disrupted. However, the tools will no longer be supported through service tickets in the Azure portal and will not receive product updates.
Bot Framework Composer provides a user interface to work with custom code bots built using the Azure Bot Framework. For customers looking to transition away from Bot Framework Composer, consider Microsoft Copilot Studio. Copilot Studio is a SaaS based application that provides a user interface that supports users in building modern agent applications in a similar capacity using topics, messages and other familiar tools that Bot Composer users will be used to.
Check out the Copilot Studio docs for more information on Getting Started with Copilot Studio, and sign up for a free trial.
Functions of this project were superseded by Microsoft Copilot Studio,
Archived projects are still available for use by developers, however they will not be actively maintained or serviced by Microsoft.
Microsoft Bot Framework Composer
Overview
Bot Framework Composer is an open-source, visual authoring canvas for developers and multi-disciplinary teams to design and build conversational experiences with Language Understanding and QnA Maker, and a sophisticated composition of bot replies (Language Generation). Within this tool, you'll have everything you need to build a sophisticated conversational experience.
- A visual editing canvas for conversation flows
- In context editing for language understanding (NLU)
- Tools to train, test and manage language understanding (NLU) and QnA components
- Language generation and templating system
- A ready-to-use bot runtime executable
The Bot Framework Composer is an open source tool based on the Bot Framework SDK. It is available as a desktop application as well as a web-based component
Get Started
- Download Composer for Windows, Mac and Linux. Please see supported OS versions.
- To learn about the Bot Framework Composer, read the documentation.
- To get yourself familiar with the Composer, read Introduction to Bot Framework Composer.
- Create your first bot!
- To find the most recent release and learn what has changed in Bot Framework Composer, see the latest release.
Build Composer Locally
To build and run the Composer project locally as a web application, clone the source code from Github and build the application using the instructions below.
Prerequisites
- Git.
- Node.js LTS 14.x.
- Yarn.
- .NET Core SDK 3.1 or later.
- On Windows, install the latest Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019.
- List of recommended OS versions.
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-Composer.git
cd BotFramework-Composer
cd Composer # switch to Composer folder
yarn install # install dependencies
yarn build # build extensions and libs
yarn startall # start client and server at the same time
Extend Composer with Extensions
Many aspects of Composer's functionality can be customized and extended through extensions. Features such as authentication, storage, publishing and even the samples and templates available on the homescreen can be customized by creating new extensions.
Read more about building Composer extensions →
Support and Feedback
Related project
The Bot Framework Composer is part of the Bot Framework platform:
Contributing
This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.microsoft.com.
When you submit a pull request, a CLA-bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., label, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.
Issues and feature requests
Please file issues and feature requests here.
Also, see current known issues for high impact bugs you may experience.
Submitting pull requests
If you'd like to contribute pull requests to Composer, see the contributing guide for helpful information on our development workflow.
Reporting security issues
Security issues and bugs should be reported privately, via email, to the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) at secure@microsoft.com. You should receive a response within 24 hours. If for some reason you do not, please follow up via email to ensure we received your original message. Further information, including the MSRC PGP key, can be found in the Security TechCenter.