What happens with the Assistants API dependencies after the API has been shut down?

[mkemmerz]

What happens with the Assistants API parts after the API has been closed?

Some of the SK components are super coupled with the Assistants API.
The AzureAIAgent is such an example. The Azure AI Foundry only supports Agents via the Assistants API so is there any plan yet? I know this might exceed the scope of this repository a bit but Azure AI Foundry + the Agents there are only way to create such Agents as far as I know.

Is there a plan to deprecate and remove those parts from SK before the Assistants API is fully shut down next year?

OpenAI has an official sunset announcement for the Assistants API, which can also be found in Microsofts documentation: After achieving feature parity in the Responses API, we've deprecated the Assistants API. It will shut down on August 26, 2026