Deprecate @microsoft/adaptivecards-tools in August 2025

[MuyangAmigo]

Hello Teams Toolkit Friends!

We've loved hearing your positive feedback on Adaptive Card Tools, a package we created to simplify the use of Adaptive Cards and make it easier for developers to create cards with data payloads.
As we continue to evolve, we want to let you know that we’ll be deprecating this package in one year. We’re excited about the future and the new solutions we’ll be bringing your way!

Why make this decision

The top reason we made this decision is based on the feedback we constantly hear: There are too many SDKs and tools in the Microsoft 365 developer ecosystem. So, this is part of the effort from us to make the offering simpler.

What are your alternatives

Given these considerations:

1. The feature offered in the adaptivecards-tools is quite simple.
2. There are overlaps with existing adaptivecards-templating package.

So, we have decided to deprecate the package and your options are:

1. If you are starting a new project with Teams Toolkit, you will notice the project template no longer includes this package, and corresponding implementations are shifted to use adaptivecards-templating.
2. If you have an existing project with this package, in the next update, you will notice the deprecation warning and please start to use adaptivecards-templating.

Below is an example of how you could make a switch (Or follow this PR):

Timeline

Based on our Support Policy, Teams Toolkit CLI and SDKs model after Azure SDK’s lifecycle and support policy:

• August 2024: announcement and warnings added in to annotations of the SDK API.
• August 2024 - August 2025: only the most critical bug fixes and security fixes will be addressed, no further updates will be shipped.
• August 2025: The package will be officially deprecated in NPM registry.

Feedback

Should you have any concerns, please leave a message to [email protected]