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Agents, supercharged - Multi-agents, External tools, and more

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What is an agent?

If you’re new to `transformers.agents`, make sure to first read the main agents documentation.

In this page we’re going to highlight several advanced uses of `transformers.agents`.

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Multi-agents

Multi-agent has been introduced in Microsoft’s framework Autogen. It simply means having several agents working together to solve your task instead of only one. It empirically yields better performance on most benchmarks. The reason for this better performance is conceptually simple: for many tasks, rather than using a do-it-all system, you would prefer to specialize units on sub-tasks. Here, having agents with separate tool sets and memories allows to achieve efficient specialization.

You can easily build hierarchical multi-agent systems with `transformers.agents`.

To do so, encapsulate the agent in a ManagedAgent object. This object needs arguments `agent`, `name`, and a `description`, which will then be embedded in the manager agent’s system prompt to let it know how to call this managed agent, as we also do for tools.

Here’s an example of making an agent that managed a specitif web search agent using our `DuckDuckGoSearchTool`:

    from transformers.agents import ReactCodeAgent, HfApiEngine, DuckDuckGoSearchTool, ManagedAgent

    llm_engine = HfApiEngine()

    web_agent = ReactCodeAgent(tools=[DuckDuckGoSearchTool()], llm_engine=llm_engine)

    managed_web_agent = ManagedAgent(
        agent=web_agent,
        name="web_search",
        description="Runs web searches for you. Give it your query as an argument."
    )

    manager_agent = ReactCodeAgent(
        tools=[], llm_engine=llm_engine, managed_agents=[managed_web_agent]
    )

    manager_agent.run("Who is the CEO of Hugging Face?")

For an in-depth example of an efficient multi-agent implementation, see how we pushed our multi-agent system to the top of the GAIA leaderboard.

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Use tools from gradio or LangChain

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Use gradio-tools

gradio-tools is a powerful library that allows using Hugging Face Spaces as tools. It supports many existing Spaces as well as custom Spaces.

Transformers supports `gradio_tools` with the Tool.from_gradio() method. For example, let’s use the `StableDiffusionPromptGeneratorTool` from `gradio-tools` toolkit for improving prompts to generate better images.

Import and instantiate the tool, then pass it to the `Tool.from_gradio` method:

    from gradio_tools import StableDiffusionPromptGeneratorTool
    from transformers import Tool, load_tool, CodeAgent

    gradio_prompt_generator_tool = StableDiffusionPromptGeneratorTool()
    prompt_generator_tool = Tool.from_gradio(gradio_prompt_generator_tool)

Now you can use it just like any other tool. For example, let’s improve the prompt `a rabbit wearing a space suit`.

    image_generation_tool = load_tool('huggingface-tools/text-to-image')
    agent = CodeAgent(tools=[prompt_generator_tool, image_generation_tool], llm_engine=llm_engine)

    agent.run(
        "Improve this prompt, then generate an image of it.", prompt='A rabbit wearing a space suit'
    )

The model adequately leverages the tool:

    ======== New task ========
    Improve this prompt, then generate an image of it.
    You have been provided with these initial arguments: {'prompt': 'A rabbit wearing a space suit'}.
    ==== Agent is executing the code below:
    improved_prompt = StableDiffusionPromptGenerator(query=prompt)
    while improved_prompt == "QUEUE_FULL":
        improved_prompt = StableDiffusionPromptGenerator(query=prompt)
    print(f"The improved prompt is {improved_prompt}.")
    image = image_generator(prompt=improved_prompt)
    ====

Before finally generating the image:

gradio-tools require textual inputs and outputs even when working with different modalities like image and audio objects. Image and audio inputs and outputs are currently incompatible.

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Use LangChain tools

We love Langchain and think it has a very compelling suite of tools. To import a tool from LangChain, use the `from_langchain()` method.

Here is how you can use it to recreate the intro’s search result using a LangChain web search tool.

    from langchain.agents import load_tools
    from transformers import Tool, ReactCodeAgent

    search_tool = Tool.from_langchain(load_tools(["serpapi"])[0])

    agent = ReactCodeAgent(tools=[search_tool])

    agent.run("How many more blocks (also denoted as layers) in BERT base encoder than the encoder from the architecture proposed in Attention is All You Need?")

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Display your agent run in a cool Gradio interface

You can leverage `gradio.Chatbot`to display your agent’s thoughts using `stream_to_gradio`, here is an example:

    import gradio as gr
    from transformers import (
        load_tool,
        ReactCodeAgent,
        HfApiEngine,
        stream_to_gradio,
    )

    # Import tool from Hub
    image_generation_tool = load_tool("m-ric/text-to-image")

    llm_engine = HfApiEngine("meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct")

    # Initialize the agent with the image generation tool
    agent = ReactCodeAgent(tools=[image_generation_tool], llm_engine=llm_engine)

    def interact_with_agent(task):
        messages = []
        messages.append(gr.ChatMessage(role="user", content=task))
        yield messages
        for msg in stream_to_gradio(agent, task):
            messages.append(msg)
            yield messages + [
                gr.ChatMessage(role="assistant", content="⏳ Task not finished yet!")
            ]
        yield messages

    with gr.Blocks() as demo:
        text_input = gr.Textbox(lines=1, label="Chat Message", value="Make me a picture of the Statue of Liberty.")
        submit = gr.Button("Run illustrator agent!")
        chatbot = gr.Chatbot(
            label="Agent",
            type="messages",
            avatar_images=(
                None,
                "https://em-content.zobj.net/source/twitter/53/robot-face_1f916.png",
            ),
        )
        submit.click(interact_with_agent, [text_input], [chatbot])

    if __name__ == "__main__":
        demo.launch()

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