In the Atomic Agents framework, an agent is a class that can interact with a user or another agent. Agents can be used to handle chat interactions, interface with tools, or perform other specialized tasks. The BaseAgent class is the base class for all chat agents, and the ToolInterfaceAgent class extends the BaseAgent to add tool interfacing capabilities.
The BaseAgent class serves two primary purposes:
- It can be used directly to handle chat interactions.
- It can be extended to create more specialized agents either to be re-used such as the
ToolInterfaceAgentor to create new agents for specific tasks. For examples, see theexamplesdirectory.
The ToolInterfaceAgent class extends the BaseAgent class to add tool interfacing capabilities. It provides a standard interface for interacting with tools such as those in the atomic_agents.tools package.