Send messages to subagents with tell

[onechat] / prompt.go

diff --git a/prompt.go b/prompt.go
index 8bd96911aef70364b58dfbef8c97d92b9d6fe5b3..ee86ebd74293e0345992cf89cd3fdb7fcb476d92 100644 (file)
--- a/prompt.go
+++ b/prompt.go
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ func promptSubagent(name, instructions string) string {
 }
 
 // promptTools returns the function tools of every call of the agent: the tools
 }
 
 // promptTools returns the function tools of every call of the agent: the tools

-// of promptSubagentTools, then spawn. A compaction sends them too and never
+// of promptSubagentTools, then spawn and tell. A compaction sends them too and never

 // calls them, because a change of the tools ends the shared prompt cache.
 func promptTools() []ModelTool {
        return append(promptSubagentTools(), ModelTool{
 // calls them, because a change of the tools ends the shared prompt cache.
 func promptTools() []ModelTool {
        return append(promptSubagentTools(), ModelTool{


@@ -205,6 +205,15 @@ func promptTools() []ModelTool {
                        },
                }),
                Strict: true,
                        },
                }),
                Strict: true,

+       }, ModelTool{
+               Type:        "function",
+               Name:        "tell",
+               Description: `Send a message to a subagent, by name. One at work reads it between its tool calls, and its report answers it; a finished one goes on from its chat, and its reply reaches you as a message "[Name] reply".`,
+               Parameters: promptObjectSchema(map[string]any{
+                       "name":    promptStringSchema("The name of the subagent."),
+                       "message": promptStringSchema("The message."),
+               }),
+               Strict: true,

        })
 }
 
        })
 }