referenced file not present

[sayali-MSFT]

.m365agentsplayground.yml does not exist in either of two instances created using the latest versions of Visual Studio 2022 nor does any other file I can find have similar content.

Page URL
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/toolkit/debug-your-agents-playground?tabs=vscode%2Cclijs

Content source URL
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/msteams-docs/blob/main/msteams-platform/toolkit/debug-your-agents-playground.md

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🤖 AI-Generated Preliminary Analysis:

You are correct—the .m365agentsplayground.yml (or any similarly named config file for Microsoft 365 Agents Playground) is not currently auto-generated in projects created via the Visual Studio 2022 extension or CLI. This file is referenced in the docs, but as of the latest toolkit releases, its generation/usage is not standard in either Visual Studio or VS Code.

Actionable steps:

• You don’t need to worry about the missing file—your Agent can still be debugged and tested with the built-in Playground integration.
• If you need to manually set paths for Agents Playground, do so via Visual Studio: Tools > Options > Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit > Microsoft 365 Agents Playground.
• The documentation is outdated on this file; Microsoft is expected to update it soon (see known issues).

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[HuihuiWu-Microsoft]

@sayali-MSFT Thanks for reporting this to us. The file name should be m365agents.playground.yml. @summzhan The docs should be updated.
For your question, m365agents.playground.yml file only exists in projects created by Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for VSC. For VS, we don't have this file in project.

[lakshya-bain]

How can I change the default configuration in this? I created a .m365agentsplayground.yml file but it is not being read on reloading the application.

[HuihuiWu-Microsoft]

@qinzhouxu Could you help answer how user could customize playground env?

[qinzhouxu]

@sayali-MSFT @lakshya-bain As a workaround, we have an environment variable TEAMS_APP_TEST_TOOL_CONFIG_PATH to customize the path for yml file.

@summzhan We should update this to documentation. cc. @HuihuiWu-Microsoft