can autogen assitentagent call same tool multiple times if needed ?

[amardeepjaiman]

In scenarios where AssistantAgent needs to call the same tool multiple times to retrieve useful context. autogen supports this and how ?

Lets consider a scenario where AssistantAgent is an code analysis agent and he needs to retrieve relevant code snippets multiple times , analyze it and retrieve code multiple times to come up to final analysis. How to design this kind of agent ?

[ekzhu]

Right now, see https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/stable/user-guide/agentchat-user-guide/tutorial/teams.html#single-agent-team for how to do this using AssistantAgent in a loop.

Separate issue for making this a built-in feature in AssistantAgent. #6268

[amardeepjaiman]

So by default, Assistant Agent will call the tool once right even if the model supports tool call multiple times. right ? Can it be instructed via system prompt ?
In the given example its only calling the tool based on system prompt with TextMessage based termination condition.

any more suggestions are welcomed!!

[ekzhu]

Can it be instructed via system prompt ?

Yes.