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AI-Engineer-Foundation / agent-protocol

Common interface for interacting with AI agents. The protocol is tech stack agnostic - you can use it with any framework for building agents.
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Question: Can agents create steps or tasks for itself? #64

Closed thomafred closed 1 year ago

thomafred commented 1 year ago

Does the protocol any restrictions to whether an agent can create tasks or steps for itself? How does this relate to the is_last-flag?

hackgoofer commented 1 year ago

The analogy is that a task is a ChatGPT chat window, and and a step is a message to the chatGPT (in this case the agent).

Another agent can definitely create a task and steps onto your existing agent. When the existing agent identifies that the step is the last_step, it will return to the client with last_step=True

hackgoofer commented 1 year ago

I am closing the issue, please reopen if you have additional questions!

thomafred commented 1 year ago

@hackgoofer Thanks for the clarification.

I guess my confusion revolves around the last_step-flag. In what circumstances does the agent set this flag to true, and what implications does this have? Can we for example start cleaning up resources at this point?

In half-duplex systems such as walkie-talkies for example, protocol dictates that the person starting a conversation is also the one ending it.