Discussion: How can I use Stateless in conjunction with Semantic Kernel

[adanbrownpaca]

Semantic Kernel has a Processes concept.

Processes use steps, and both the process and the steps seem analogous to stateless.

I wonder if Stateless could be extended to allow its states, triggers, etc., to work with Semantic Kernel processes and steps.

What do you think?

[cmandlbaur]

😮 I was just about to make the switch to Stateless for the same, because I tried the processes and they're ok.

Some points from my quick dive in:

• Stateless supports storing the state of the machine, you would still need to store state of your individual "steps" executed.
• Processes support dispatching events from one step to another and if a step invokes a function that takes multiple arguments it will enqueue those args until all necessary args are available and then trigger the next step.
• I far prefer to see my processes as well defined and SK processes seem to be way more loosely coupled, my guess is that they are wanting to enable you to define some rules and then let the process flow to allow for some sort of emergent behaviour.

Will be digging into this over the next few days and will post another update here.

[adanbrownpaca]

Keep me posted!

Finding the right approach/synergy between state management, processes, and SK orchestration could open up a universe of application opportunities.