Auto Generated Agent Chat: Function Inception

AutoGen offers conversable agents powered by LLM, tool or human, which can be used to perform tasks collectively via automated chat. This framework allows tool use and human participation through multi-agent conversation. Please find documentation about this feature here.

In this notebook, we demonstrate how to use AssistantAgent and UserProxyAgent to give them the ability to auto-extend the list of functions the model may call. Functions need to be registered to UserProxyAgent, which will be responsible for executing any function calls made by AssistantAgent. The assistant also needs to know the signature of functions that may be called. A special define_function function is registered, which registers a new function in UserProxyAgent and updates the configuration of the assistant.

In the example scenario, the user first asks to define a function that gets a URL and prints the response body. Then the user asks to print the response body, and the assistant suggests to the user to call the new function.

Requirements

AutoGen requires Python>=3.9.

import json

from autogen import AssistantAgent, UserProxyAgent, config_list_from_json
from autogen.code_utils import execute_code

config_list = config_list_from_json(
    "OAI_CONFIG_LIST",
    filter_dict={
        # Function calling with GPT 3.5
        "model": ["gpt-3.5-turbo-16k-0613"],
    },
)
llm_config = {
    "functions": [
        {
            "name": "define_function",
            "description": "Define a function to add to the context of the conversation. Necessary Python packages must be declared. Once defined, the assistant may decide to use this function, respond with a normal message.",
            "parameters": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "name": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "The name of the function to define.",
                    },
                    "description": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "A short description of the function.",
                    },
                    "arguments": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": 'JSON schema of arguments encoded as a string. For example: { "url": { "type": "string", "description": "The URL", }}',
                    },
                    "packages": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "A list of package names imported by the function, and that need to be installed with pip prior to invoking the function. This solves ModuleNotFoundError.",
                    },
                    "code": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "The implementation in Python. Do not include the function declaration.",
                    },
                },
                "required": ["name", "description", "arguments", "packages", "code"],
            },
        },
    ],
    "config_list": config_list,
    "request_timeout": 120,
}


def define_function(name, description, arguments, packages, code):
    json_args = json.loads(arguments)
    function_config = {
        "name": name,
        "description": description,
        "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": json_args},
        # TODO Make all arguments required
        "required": ["url"],
    }
    llm_config["functions"] = llm_config["functions"] + [function_config]
    user_proxy.register_function(function_map={name: lambda **args: execute_func(name, packages, code, **args)})
    assistant.update_function_signature(function_config, is_remove=False)
    return f"A function has been added to the context of this conversation.\nDescription: {description}"


def execute_func(name, packages, code, **args):
    pip_install = (
        f"""print("Installing package: {packages}")\nsubprocess.run(["pip", "-qq", "install", "{packages}"])"""
        if packages
        else ""
    )
    str = f"""
import subprocess
{pip_install}
print("Result of {name} function execution:")
{code}
args={args}
result={name}(**args)
if result is not None: print(result)
"""
    print(f"execute_code:\n{str}")
    result = execute_code(str)[1]
    print(f"Result: {result}")
    return result


def _is_termination_msg(message):
    """Check if a message is a termination message."""
    if isinstance(message, dict):
        message = message.get("content")
        if message is None:
            return False
        return message.rstrip().endswith("TERMINATE")


assistant = AssistantAgent(
    name="chatbot",
    system_message="""You are an assistant.
        The user will ask a question.
        You may use the provided functions before providing a final answer.
        Only use the functions you were provided.
        When the answer has been provided, reply TERMINATE.""",
    llm_config=llm_config,
)

user_proxy = UserProxyAgent(
    "user_proxy",
    code_execution_config=False,
    is_termination_msg=_is_termination_msg,
    default_auto_reply="Reply TERMINATE when the initial request has been fulfilled.",
    human_input_mode="NEVER",
)

user_proxy.register_function(function_map={"define_function": define_function})

# user_proxy.initiate_chat(
#     assistant, message="What functions do you know about?")

user_proxy.initiate_chat(
    assistant,
    message="Define a function that gets a URL, then prints the response body.\nReply TERMINATE when the function is defined.",
)

# user_proxy.initiate_chat(
#     assistant, message="List functions do you know about.")

user_proxy.initiate_chat(
    assistant, message="Print the response body of https://echo.free.beeceptor.com/\nUse the functions you know about."
)

user_proxy (to chatbot):

Define a function that gets a URL, then prints the response body.
Reply TERMINATE when the function is defined.

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chatbot (to user_proxy):

***** Suggested function Call: define_function *****
Arguments: 
{
  "name": "get_url_response_body",
  "description": "Gets a URL, then prints the response body",
  "arguments": "{\"url\": {\"type\": \"string\", \"description\": \"The URL\"}}",
  "packages": "requests",
  "code": "import requests\n\n\ndef get_url_response_body(url):\n    response = requests.get(url)\n    print(response.text)\n"
}
****************************************************

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>>>>>>>> EXECUTING FUNCTION define_function...
user_proxy (to chatbot):

***** Response from calling function "define_function" *****
A function has been added to the context of this conversation.
Description: Gets a URL, then prints the response body
************************************************************

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chatbot (to user_proxy):

TERMINATE

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user_proxy (to chatbot):

Print the response body of https://echo.free.beeceptor.com/
Use the functions you know about.

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chatbot (to user_proxy):

***** Suggested function Call: get_url_response_body *****
Arguments: 
{
  "url": "https://echo.free.beeceptor.com/"
}
**********************************************************

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>>>>>>>> EXECUTING FUNCTION get_url_response_body...
execute_code:

import subprocess
print("Installing package: requests")
subprocess.run(["pip", "-qq", "install", "requests"])
print("Result of get_url_response_body function execution:")
import requests


def get_url_response_body(url):
    response = requests.get(url)
    print(response.text)

args={'url': 'https://echo.free.beeceptor.com/'}
result=get_url_response_body(**args)
if result is not None: print(result)

Result: Installing package: requests
Result of get_url_response_body function execution:
{
  "method": "GET",
  "path": "/",
  "ip": "104.28.208.116",
  "headers": {
    "host": "echo.free.beeceptor.com",
    "user-agent": "python-requests/2.31.0",
    "accept": "*/*",
    "accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate",
    "x-forwarded-for": "104.28.208.116",
    "x-forwarded-host": "echo.free.beeceptor.com",
    "x-forwarded-proto": "https",
    "x-real-ip": "104.28.208.116"
  },
  "parsedQueryParams": {}
}

user_proxy (to chatbot):

***** Response from calling function "get_url_response_body" *****
Installing package: requests
Result of get_url_response_body function execution:
{
  "method": "GET",
  "path": "/",
  "ip": "104.28.208.116",
  "headers": {
    "host": "echo.free.beeceptor.com",
    "user-agent": "python-requests/2.31.0",
    "accept": "*/*",
    "accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate",
    "x-forwarded-for": "104.28.208.116",
    "x-forwarded-host": "echo.free.beeceptor.com",
    "x-forwarded-proto": "https",
    "x-real-ip": "104.28.208.116"
  },
  "parsedQueryParams": {}
}

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chatbot (to user_proxy):

The response body of https://echo.free.beeceptor.com/ is:

{
  "method": "GET",
  "path": "/",
  "ip": "104.28.208.116",
  "headers": {
    "host": "echo.free.beeceptor.com",
    "user-agent": "python-requests/2.31.0",
    "accept": "*/*",
    "accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate",
    "x-forwarded-for": "104.28.208.116",
    "x-forwarded-host": "echo.free.beeceptor.com",
    "x-forwarded-proto": "https",
    "x-real-ip": "104.28.208.116"
  },
  "parsedQueryParams": {}
}

TERMINATE

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