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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 specific 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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Advanced tool usage

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Directly define a tool by subclassing Tool, and share it to the Hub

Let’s take again the tool example from main documentation, for which we had implemented a `tool` decorator.

If you need to add variation, like custom attributes for your too, you can build your tool following the fine-grained method: building a class that inherits from the Tool superclass.

The custom tool needs:

- An attribute `name`, which corresponds to the name of the tool itself. The name usually describes what the tool does. Since the code returns the model with the most downloads for a task, let’s name is `model_download_counter`.
- An attribute `description` is used to populate the agent’s system prompt.
- An `inputs` attribute, which is a dictionary with keys `"type"` and `"description"`. It contains information that helps the Python interpreter make educated choices about the input.
- An `output_type` attribute, which specifies the output type.
- A `forward` method which contains the inference code to be executed.

The types for both `inputs` and `output_type` should be amongst Pydantic formats.

    from transformers import Tool
    from huggingface_hub import list_models

    class HFModelDownloadsTool(Tool):
        name = "model_download_counter"
        description = """
        This is a tool that returns the most downloaded model of a given task on the Hugging Face Hub.
        It returns the name of the checkpoint."""

        inputs = {
            "task": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "the task category (such as text-classification, depth-estimation, etc)",
            }
        }
        output_type = "string"

        def forward(self, task: str):
            model = next(iter(list_models(filter=task, sort="downloads", direction=-1)))
            return model.id

Now that the custom `HfModelDownloadsTool` class is ready, you can save it to a file named `model_downloads.py` and import it for use.

    from model_downloads import HFModelDownloadsTool

    tool = HFModelDownloadsTool()

You can also share your custom tool to the Hub by calling push_to_hub() on the tool. Make sure you’ve created a repository for it on the Hub and are using a token with read access.

    tool.push_to_hub("{your_username}/hf-model-downloads")

Load the tool with the `~Tool.load_tool` function and pass it to the `tools` parameter in your agent.

    from transformers import load_tool, CodeAgent

    model_download_tool = load_tool("m-ric/hf-model-downloads")

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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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