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Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Core

NuGet · v1.81.0 · MIT

Semantic Kernel core orchestration, runtime and functions. This package is automatically installed by 'Microsoft.SemanticKernel' package with other useful packages. Install this package manually only if you are selecting individual Semantic Kernel components.

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Install

dotnet add package Microsoft.SemanticKernel.Core

Adoption

All-time downloads: 25.1M; Observeddownloads, all time
Popularity: Top 50% on NuGet; Derived66th percentile within NuGet
Dependents: Not published by NuGet; Not published
Maintenance: 0.90; DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year: 35; 98 versions over its life

Growth by period

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Adoption historydownloads, all time

Observations in this range began OCT 5, 2026. The chart appears after 7 observations; 2 so far. Collecting history.

Table of observations (2)

Day	downloads, all time
OCT 24, 2026	25,130,724
OCT 5, 2026	23,518,207

Facts from the registry

Latest version: v1.81.0; 98 versions
First published: DEC 18, 2023
Last release: OCT 6, 2026; 18d ago
Licence: MIT
Links: NuGet page (opens in a new tab); Homepage · aka.ms (opens in a new tab); Source · github.com (opens in a new tab)

Repository

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