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@memberjunction/ai-bridge-teams

The Microsoft Teams Realtime Bridge driver in MemberJunction’s Realtime Bridges program. It connects the one realtime agent engine to a Teams meeting: bidirectional audio, a diarized participant roster, participant mute, Teams meeting chat, and a Meeting Controls facilitator channel — all behind an injectable Teams calling-bot SDK seam so the driver builds and unit-tests with no network and no real Teams / Azure Communication Services SDK. It is a structural mirror of the reference @memberjunction/ai-bridge-zoom driver.

See the Realtime Bridges Guide and /plans/realtime/realtime-bridges-architecture.md (§3 provider abstraction, §4b channels, §8 Microsoft Teams capability row) for the full architecture.

Terminal window
npm install @memberjunction/ai-bridge-teams
  • TeamsBridge@RegisterClass(BaseRealtimeBridge, 'TeamsBridge'). The MJ: AI Bridge Providers row with DriverClass = 'TeamsBridge' resolves to this driver via the ClassFactory. Implements the four BaseRealtimeBridge abstracts (Connect / Disconnect / SendMedia / OnMedia) and the capability-gated virtuals Teams supports (GetParticipants, OnParticipantChange), plus GetMeetingControlsEventSource for the facilitator channel and a PostChatMessage helper.
  • ITeamsMeetingSdk — the injectable seam the driver depends on instead of the real SDK.
  • TeamsMeetingControlsEventSource — adapts the seam’s roster / hand-raise / speaking / mute into the bridge’s IBridgeMeetingControlsEventSource, so the engine wires the Meeting Controls channel.

Capability coverage (the Microsoft Teams seed row)

Section titled “Capability coverage (the Microsoft Teams seed row)”
CapabilityStatus
On-demand + scheduled + invite + native invite join
Inbound routing
Audio in / out
Video in/out, Screen in/out (directional flags)✅ (transport carries them; models light audio first)
Speaker diarization (roster + per-speaker labels)
Participant mute (Meeting Controls)
Teams meeting chat
Native raised-hand⚠️ Partial — wired where the calling-bot API surfaces it; tolerant of it never firing
DTMF / call transfer / recording➖ not Teams-meeting features here — the gated base methods throw BridgeCapabilityNotSupportedError

Capability gating is two-layer (defense-in-depth): the engine checks the provider’s SupportedFeatures first, and the driver re-asserts each flag with RequireFeature at the top of its overrides.

Teams advertises everything Zoom does, plus InviteJoin, NativeInvite, and InboundRouting (the calendar-invite / marketplace-native-invite / inbound-routing UX), and its native raised-hand is partial rather than fully reliable. Everything else (audio in/out, directional video/screen, diarized roster, mute, meeting chat) maps one-to-one onto the Zoom reference driver.

The Teams calling-bot SDK seam (ITeamsMeetingSdk)

Section titled “The Teams calling-bot SDK seam (ITeamsMeetingSdk)”

The driver never imports the real Teams / ACS SDK. It depends only on this minimal interface, named after Microsoft Teams / Azure Communication Services calling-bot concepts:

export interface ITeamsMeetingSdk {
join(args: TeamsJoinArgs): Promise<TeamsJoinResult>;
leave(): Promise<void>;
sendAudioFrame(pcm: ArrayBuffer): void; // agent's voice out (outbound audio socket)
onAudioFrame(cb: (frame: TeamsAudioFrame) => void): void; // raw per-participant audio in (diarization)
onParticipantJoin(cb: (p: TeamsParticipant) => void): void;
onParticipantLeave(cb: (id: string) => void): void;
onHandRaise(cb: (id: string, raised: boolean) => void): void; // ⚠️ partial on Teams
getParticipants(): Promise<TeamsParticipant[]>;
postChatMessage(text: string): Promise<void>; // Teams meeting chat thread
muteParticipant(participantId: string): Promise<void>;
onMeetingEnded(cb: () => void): void;
}

In production this is bound to the Azure Communication Services (ACS) calling-bot SDK plus the Microsoft Graph cloud-communications API (/communications/calls, application-hosted media) for per-participant PCM audio, roster events, mute, and Teams meeting-chat posting. Supply a factory via the creation seam:

import { TeamsBridge } from '@memberjunction/ai-bridge-teams';
// Once, where bridge drivers are configured:
// bridge.SetSdkFactory((config) => new RealTeamsSdkAdapter(config));
// The adapter implements ITeamsMeetingSdk over the real ACS/Graph SDK. The driver + its tests do not change.

Out of the box, TeamsBridge ships without the real SDK adapter — Connect throws an explicit “bind the real Microsoft Teams SDK” error until SetSdkFactory is called. Tests inject a FakeTeamsSdk.

The bridge is not used directly — AIBridgeEngine.StartBridgeSession (@memberjunction/ai-bridge-server) resolves it from the provider’s DriverClass, wires the transport seam to the injected IRealtimeSession, and (when a channel host is supplied) wires the Meeting Controls channel from GetMeetingControlsEventSource. See the bridge-server package and the guide’s “Channel plane” section.

FakeTeamsSdk (in src/__tests__/) is an in-memory ITeamsMeetingSdk with drive helpers and capture sinks. The suite covers connect/disconnect (incl. parsing the meeting thread id out of the join URL), audio in→OnMedia (speaker labels) and out→seam, participant join/leave → roster + event source, native hand-raise → Meeting Controls perception, capability gating (a feature Teams lacks throws), and chat — all with no network.

Terminal window
cd packages/AI/Providers/BridgeTeams && npm run test