Laurent Kempé is an experienced Team Leader & Distinguished Solution Architect with a passion for shipping high-quality products. In this post, he explores Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel Agents Framework RC1 with C#, creating a simple agent and running it locally with Ollama. AI agents are autonomous systems utilizing Large Language Models or Small Language Models for natural language understanding. They can handle tasks and interact with various tools. The post focuses on creating a non-agentic agent using Semantic Kernel and Ollama. To get started, install Ollama, download the Phi-4 SLM model, and add necessary nuget packages to your project. The post provides code snippets for creating a basic console application with the Semantic Kernel. The agent created can answer questions about C# and .NET. To run the agent, execute dotnet run in your terminal. This post showcases how to build and run a simple AI agent using Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel framework and Ollama in C#.
