Microsoft has simply launched the fourth preview of its AI Shell device with a number of notable enhancements. The massive modifications on this replace embrace macOS assist enhancements, assist for Microsoft Entra ID, Invoke-AIShell command additions, assist for the Phi Silica agent, and different minor enhancements.

As a little bit of background, Microsoft’s AI Shell is an interactive shell that offers you a chat interface to varied giant language fashions. The shell offers you entry to brokers that hook up with totally different AI fashions and suppliers. By means of the shell, customers can work together with brokers conversationally.

The most important change is that this replace are the numerous enhancements made to the macOS sidecar expertise when utilizing iTerm2. Microsoft says that this facet automobile expertise was beforehand unreliable and didn’t assist the /code publish command. With this replace, the expertise is extra dependable and brings characteristic parity along with your expertise on Home windows. To make use of the sidecar mode, Microsoft says it is advisable run PowerShell 7 in iTerm2.

One other fairly notable replace is the added assist for the experimental agent, Phi Silica. This agent leverages the built-in Phi Silica mannequin that’s included with Copilot+ PCs, supplying you with an offline expertise with AI Shell. As soon as huge caveat, although, is that this agent isn’t shipped with AI Shell by default. If you wish to use it, it is advisable clone the repo and construct the code your self. You possibly can learn to do that right here. Please remember that the agent remains to be experimental and it is best to count on breakage in future releases.

One other change that Microsoft has launched is the added assist for Entra ID authentication to Azure OpenAI situations. This lets you entry the Azure OpenAI assets with no need to retailer keys in a configuration file.

Lastly, there are new extra parameters that you could apply when working the Invoke-AIShell command to permit for simpler use of the facet pane. The primary parameter is -PostCode which helps you to publish code generated from the facet pane to the linked PowerShell session, lowering the necessity to change between the facet pane and terminal to run the /code publish command.

The second parameter is -CopyCode which helps you to copy code from the facet pane with out utilizing the /code copy command. Lastly, the -Exit parameter permits you to exit the facet pane with out utilizing the /exit command.

The opposite minor enhancements are:

• Up to date mannequin info to assist newest OpenAI fashions
• Add /clear as an alias to the command /cls to clear console in AIShell
• Replace set up script to put in the AIShell module on macOS too
• Enhanced mannequin administration and system immediate integration in OllamaAgent

To put in Preview 4 of AI Shell, open up PowerShell and run the next command:

Invoke-Expression "& { $(Invoke-RestMethod ' }"

You possibly can present any suggestions you could have within the GitHub repository.