RANCH: Data Agent Responses API Notebook Conversion Helper Command Palette Search for a command to run... SSandeep Pawar Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Fabric CAT helping users and organizations build scalable, insightful, secure solutions. Blogs, opinions are my own and do not represent my employer. In case you missed it, Open AI announced the deprecation of Assistant API a while ago. In response to that, Fabric data agent is moving from the Assistant API to the Responses API. You have to migrate by August 26, that's 10 days away! refer to this official announcement : Prepare your Fabric Data Agent integrations for Assistants API retirement | Microsoft Fabric Community If you don't use the Python SDK to manage, evaluate the data agents - ignore this blog. You are good. To help speed up the process, I (i.e. GHCP CLI with my direction) have created a tool to help you migrate. Upload your existing notebook that uses the Assistant API and download a notebook with Responses API. It scans the code cells and proposes the changes. No LLM is used, it's all regex and pattern based. It's called RANCH (Responses API Notebook Conversion Helper) RANCH (BETA) · Fabric Data Agent Migration · Streamlit Give it a try, if you run into any issues, please file a bug here. 💡 Unlike the Assistant API, Responses API cannot be used from outside of Fabric for evaluation. For external evaluation, use the MCP endpoint. Here are the sample Responses API notebooks : fabric-samples/docs-samples/data-science/data-agent-sdk/responses-api at main · microsoft/fabric-samples #data-agent#python-sdk#responses-api Comments (1) Join the discussion FFarrell Muhammad4h ago Great breakdown on automating notebook conversions for data agent responses! Tooling like this makes data workflow experiments so much smoother. As a student exploring AI and data engineering at Universitas Airlangga, seeing practical conversion helpers like this saves a lot of manual setup time. Thanks for sharing! More from this blog Apr 14, 2026 Apr 2, 2026 Mar 24, 2026 Jan 16, 2026 MMicrosoft Fabric | Power BI | Data Analytics & AI 120 posts Hi 👋I am Sandeep Pawar, data and AI professional. As a Principal Program Manager @Microsoft Fabric CAT, I help users and customers succeed with Microsoft Fabric.