smolagents-audit/docs/source/en/reference/agents.md
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Agents

Smolagents is an experimental API which is subject to change at any time. Results returned by the agents can vary as the APIs or underlying models are prone to change.

To learn more about agents and tools make sure to read the introductory guide. This page contains the API docs for the underlying classes.

Agents

Our agents inherit from [MultiStepAgent], which means they can act in multiple steps, each step consisting of one thought, then one tool call and execution. Read more in this conceptual guide.

We provide two types of agents, based on the main [Agent] class.

  • [CodeAgent] writes its tool calls in Python code (this is the default).
  • [ToolCallingAgent] writes its tool calls in JSON.

Both require arguments model and list of tools tools at initialization.

Classes of agents

autodoc MultiStepAgent

autodoc CodeAgent

autodoc ToolCallingAgent

stream_to_gradio

autodoc stream_to_gradio

GradioUI

Tip

You must have gradio installed to use the UI. Please run pip install 'smolagents[gradio]' if it's not the case.

autodoc GradioUI

Prompts

autodoc smolagents.agents.PromptTemplates

autodoc smolagents.agents.PlanningPromptTemplate

autodoc smolagents.agents.ManagedAgentPromptTemplate

autodoc smolagents.agents.FinalAnswerPromptTemplate

Memory

Smolagents use memory to store information across multiple steps.

autodoc smolagents.memory.AgentMemory