AgentChat

AgentChat is a high-level package for building multi-agent applications built on top of the autogen-core package. For beginner users, AgentChat is the recommended starting point. For advanced users, autogen-core provides more flexibility and control over the underlying components.

AgentChat aims to provide intuitive defaults, such as Agents with preset behaviors and Teams with predefined communication protocols, to simplify building multi-agent applications.

Tip

If you are interested in implementing complex agent interaction behaviours, defining custom messaging protocols, or orchestration mechanisms, consider using the autogen-core package.

Agents

Agents provide presets for how an agent might respond to received messages. The following Agents are currently supported:

• CodingAssistantAgent - Generates responses using an LLM on receipt of a message

• CodeExecutionAgent - Extracts and executes code snippets found in received messages and returns the output

• ToolUseAssistantAgent - Responds with tool call messages based on received messages and a list of tool schemas provided at initialization

Teams

Teams define how groups of agents communicate to address tasks. The following Teams are currently supported:

• RoundRobinGroupChat - A team where agents take turns sending messages (in a round robin fashion) until a termination condition is met

• SelectorGroupChat - A team where a model is used to select the next agent to send a message based on the current conversation history.