The Bot Framework team has been working on consolidating the command line interface toolset for managing bots. The new tool, BF provides a one-stop tool that embeds the functionality of the old tools collection.

The new tool is designed based on JavaScript OClif Framework.

The principles guiding the tool include:

• Unified and consistent user interface across all command groups
• Common utilities library
• Instrumentation to collect anonymous usage statistics to help prioritize investment areas (Optional user Opt-in, disabled by default)
• High quality bar in all releases by embedded testing in nightly builds
• Extensible plug-in architecture for future tools

Commands invoked by BF [New Command] as follows:

Legacy tools shall be maintained for an extended period past the deprecation message in the tool, typically spanning 2 release cycles in order to support easy transition to the new bf cli.

See Tool Lifetime Support Policy for detailed timeline.

• BF CLI main page
• Tool Lifetime Support Policy