14-03-25 Semantic Kernel Community Toolkit Network

Posted by Hon Lee on March 15, 2025

Yesterday on the 14-03-25 was the first of hopefully many of the Semantic Kernel Community Toolkit network where the community can provide closer feedback and updates to be feed back to the Semantic Kernel team in Microsoft, a few of us held talks notably on current climate of .NET MAUI with the Semantic Kernel on how that can be improved as well as the current exposure of Semantic Kernel in the educational sectors. I mentioned that the Model Context Protocol platform can be a lot more improved and will have a look in this further from the blog post Integrating Model Context Protocol Tools with Semantic Kernel: A Step-by-Step Guide | Semantic Kernel. We highlighted that all of these felt it can be improved a lot further and to bear the term "Semantic Kernel" to a wider audience if there was a more concrete landing page / home page.

Watch this space as there would be more development in the Semantic Kernel Community Toolkit hopefully in those areas.

Here are links that were mentioned in the discussion.

Rasmus Wulff Jensen Integrating xAI's Grok API with Semantic Kernel (C# & Python)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/semantic-kernel/integrate-sk-with-xai-grok-easily/

Some educational link on introducing the Semantic Kernel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GjIY-F91jU&t=12s

https://youtu.be/giTbkUW7iMc?si=RtammFRvBVc_ONep

The entire playlist on Getting started with AI in C# using Semantic Kernel and Azure OpenAI: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhGl0l5La4sY45pAGF8jcAI6Jxh0-6fBO

I also added that there is a .NET example using MAUI and Semantic Kernel below.

https://github.com/kbeaugrand/SemanticKernelDemo