[bot] Missing instrumentation for Semantic Kernel for Java

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Summary

The Braintrust Java SDK does not instrument Semantic Kernel for Java (com.microsoft.semantic-kernel:semantickernel-api). Semantic Kernel is Microsoft's official open-source AI agent framework supporting C#, Python, and Java. It provides execution-oriented APIs for chat completions, text generation, embeddings, tool/function calling, and agent orchestration. This repo instruments a comparable Java AI framework (LangChain4j), but has no Semantic Kernel module.

What is missing

The com.microsoft.semantic-kernel SDK provides these execution surfaces, none of which are instrumented:

API surface	Description
ChatCompletionService	Chat completions via OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and other connectors
TextGenerationService	Text generation / completions
EmbeddingGenerationService	Embedding generation for text inputs
Kernel.invokeAsync	Kernel-level function/plugin invocation with AI orchestration
Agent framework (semantickernel-agents-core)	Agent execution with multi-agent orchestration
Tool/function calling	Automatic function calling during model execution via plugins

The SDK is available on Maven Central (com.microsoft.semantic-kernel:semantickernel-api) at version 1.5.0 with 19 published versions. It is actively maintained by Microsoft (864 commits, part of the 27k+ star Semantic Kernel project).

There is no reference to semantic-kernel, semantickernel, or SemanticKernel anywhere in this repository — no instrumentation module, no tests, no examples, no dependencies.

Braintrust docs status

• Semantic Kernel is not listed on the Braintrust integrations page at https://www.braintrust.dev/docs/integrations — neither as an AI provider nor as an agent framework: not_found
• No Semantic Kernel-specific documentation exists for any Braintrust SDK language

Upstream sources

• Semantic Kernel Java repository: https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel-java
• Semantic Kernel documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/overview/ — official Microsoft Learn docs covering Java alongside C# and Python
• Maven Central: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/com.microsoft.semantic-kernel/semantickernel-api — v1.5.0, actively released
• Semantic Kernel main repository (C#/Python/Java): https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel — 27k+ stars

Local files inspected

• settings.gradle — lists all instrumentation modules (openai_2_8_0, anthropic_2_2_0, genai_1_18_0, langchain_1_8_0, springai_1_0_0, aws_bedrock_2_30_0); no Semantic Kernel module present
• braintrust-sdk/instrumentation/ — no Semantic Kernel directory
• Full-repo grep for semantic.kernel, semantickernel, SemanticKernel — zero matches