Dependency Injection of Agents and Plugins

[codehippie1]

I am following adding plugins to specific agents using this - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/frameworks/agent/agent-functions?pivots=programming-language-csharp#adding-plugins-to-an-agent

What is the right way to inject this using DI.

In general, I would love to see recommendations to inject "Kernel" into an aspnet core API. Should we choose Singleton or Transient for best performance. Any inputs on pros/cons?

// Factory method to product an agent with a specific role.
// Could be incorporated into DI initialization.
ChatCompletionAgent CreateSpecificAgent(Kernel kernel, string credentials)
{
    // Clone kernel instance to allow for agent specific plug-in definition
    Kernel agentKernel = kernel.Clone();

    // Import plug-in from type
    agentKernel.ImportPluginFromType<StatelessPlugin>();

    // Import plug-in from object
    agentKernel.ImportPluginFromObject(new StatefulPlugin(credentials));

    // Create the agent
    return 
        new ChatCompletionAgent()
        {
            Name = "<agent name>",
            Instructions = "<agent instructions>",
            Kernel = agentKernel,
            Arguments = new KernelArguments(
                new OpenAIPromptExecutionSettings() 
                { 
                    FunctionChoiceBehavior = FunctionChoiceBehavior.Auto() 
                })
        };
}

[sophialagerkranspandey]

Please see step 6 here: https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel/blob/main/dotnet/samples/GettingStartedWithAgents/Step06_DependencyInjection.cs for an example of Dependency Injection.

[codehippie1]

Sure @sophialagerkranspandey. I explored that earlier. That example does not show adding specific plug-ins to newly cloned Kernel for individual agents