var errSubagentClosed = errors.New("the daemon stops, so no subagent starts")
// SubagentRuns runs the subagents of one agent in the background. Each run is
-// a goroutine with its own Chain and its own context, which only Close ends.
-// The first request of each chain holds the view of the agent at the spawn,
-// then the state of the turn, then the whole log of the subagent. The report of
-// the run goes to report: its final answer, or the error of a failed call. At
-// the stop of the daemon the runs end with no report.
+// a goroutine with its own context, which only Close ends. A run is one or more
+// request chains. The first request of each chain holds the view of the agent
+// at the start of the run, then the state of the turn, then the whole log of
+// the subagent. A message of Tell that comes during a chain joins its next
+// request after the tool results. One that comes after the final answer starts
+// one more chain, which reads the log again. The report of the run goes to
+// report: the final answer of each chain, or the error of a failed call. At the
+// stop of the daemon the runs end with no report.
//
-// Spawn splits the view with the layout of the agent, which has no lock. Spawn
-// is a tool, so it runs in the goroutine of the turns, as each split of a turn
-// does.
+// Spawn and Tell split the view with the layout of the agent, which has no
+// lock. They are tools, so they run in the goroutine of the turns, as each
+// split of a turn does.
type SubagentRuns struct {
agent *Agent
memory *Memory
return "Started " + strings.Join(names, ", ") + ". Each one's report will reach you as a message when it finishes.", nil
}
+// Tell sends message to the subagent name. A running subagent reads it between
+// its tool calls, and its report answers it. A finished subagent goes on from
+// its log with a new run, with the view of now and the effort of its note.
+func (r *SubagentRuns) Tell(ctx context.Context, name, message string) (string, error) {
+ r.mutex.Lock()
+ run, found := r.running[name]
+ if found {
+ defer r.mutex.Unlock()
+
+ told, err := run.subagent.Append("user", message)
+ if err != nil {
+ return "", err
+ }
+
+ run.pending = append(run.pending, told)
+
+ return "Sent. " + name + " reads it between its tool calls, and its report answers it.", nil
+ }
+
+ closed := r.closed
+ r.mutex.Unlock()
+
+ if closed {
+ return "", errSubagentClosed
+ }
+
+ subagent, err := r.subagents.Get(ctx, name)
+ if err != nil {
+ return "", err
+ }
+
+ effort, err := r.effort(subagent)
+ if err != nil {
+ return "", err
+ }
+
+ err = r.memory.Settle(ctx)
+ if err != nil {
+ return "", fmt.Errorf("wait for the summaries: %w", err)
+ }
+
+ view, err := r.layout.Split(r.memory.ViewLines(nil))
+ if err != nil {
+ return "", err
+ }
+
+ _, err = subagent.Append("user", message)
+ if err == nil {
+ err = subagent.Flush(ctx)
+ }
+
+ if err != nil {
+ return "", err
+ }
+
+ err = r.start(ctx, &SubagentRun{
+ subagent: subagent,
+ view: view,
+ effort: effort,
+ })
+ if err != nil {
+ return "", err
+ }
+
+ return "Sent. " + name + "'s reply will reach you as a message.", nil
+}
+
+// Close ends every run and waits for them. No subagent starts after Close.
+func (r *SubagentRuns) Close() {
+ r.mutex.Lock()
+ r.closed = true
+ for _, run := range r.running {
+ run.cancel()
+ }
+ r.mutex.Unlock()
+
+ r.workers.Wait()
+}
+
// create makes a new subagent with its note, its task, and its work directory,
// and starts its run.
func (r *SubagentRuns) create(ctx context.Context, note, task string, view []string, effort string) (string, error) {
})
}
+// effort returns the effort of subagent from the note at the start of its log:
+// the effort of the agent, or the effort that the note names.
+func (r *SubagentRuns) effort(subagent *Subagent) (string, error) {
+ note, err := subagent.First()
+ if err != nil {
+ return "", err
+ }
+
+ effort, own := strings.CutPrefix(note.Text, subagentNote+subagentNoteEffort)
+ switch {
+ case note.Kind != "note":
+ case own:
+ return effort, nil
+ case note.Text == subagentNote:
+ return r.agent.config.Effort, nil
+ }
+
+ return "", fmt.Errorf("the log of %s does not start with a subagent note", subagent.name)
+}
+
// start runs run in the background. Its context keeps the values of ctx, but
// only Close ends it.
func (r *SubagentRuns) start(ctx context.Context, run *SubagentRun) error {
ctx, run.cancel = context.WithCancel(context.WithoutCancel(ctx))
r.mutex.Lock()
- if r.closed {
+ _, found := r.running[run.subagent.name]
+ if r.closed || found {
r.mutex.Unlock()
run.cancel()
+ if found {
+ return fmt.Errorf("%s runs already", run.subagent.name)
+ }
+
return errSubagentClosed
}
return nil
}
-// run runs the chain of run and reports its end, unless Close ended it.
+// run runs the chains of run and reports its end, unless Close ended it. A
+// chain follows while messages wait after the final answer of the chain before
+// it, and no chain failed.
func (r *SubagentRuns) run(ctx context.Context, run *SubagentRun) {
defer r.workers.Done()
defer run.cancel()
- reply := r.chain(ctx, run)
+ var replies []string
+ for more := true; more; {
+ reply, err := r.chain(ctx, run)
+ if err != nil {
+ reply = "failed: " + err.Error()
+ }
+
+ replies = append(replies, reply)
- r.mutex.Lock()
- delete(r.running, run.subagent.name)
- r.mutex.Unlock()
+ r.mutex.Lock()
+ more = err == nil && len(run.pending) > 0
+ run.pending = nil
+ if !more {
+ delete(r.running, run.subagent.name)
+ }
+ r.mutex.Unlock()
+ }
if ctx.Err() != nil {
return
}
- r.report(subagentReport(run.subagent.name, []string{reply}), false)
+ r.report(subagentReport(run.subagent.name, replies), false)
}
-// chain runs one request chain of run and returns its final answer, or the
-// error of the chain after "failed: ".
-func (r *SubagentRuns) chain(ctx context.Context, run *SubagentRun) string {
+// chain runs one request chain of run and returns its final answer.
+func (r *SubagentRuns) chain(ctx context.Context, run *SubagentRun) (string, error) {
instructions, err := r.agent.SubagentPrompt()
if err != nil {
- return "failed: " + err.Error()
+ return "", err
}
log, err := run.subagent.Show()
if err != nil {
- return "failed: " + err.Error()
+ return "", err
}
input := make([]any, 0, len(run.view)+2)
Agent: run.subagent.name,
},
take: func() []Message {
- return nil
+ return r.take(run)
},
}
- reply, err := chain.Run(ctx, input)
- if err != nil {
- return "failed: " + err.Error()
- }
-
- return reply
+ return chain.Run(ctx, input)
}
-// Close ends every run and waits for them. No subagent starts after Close.
-func (r *SubagentRuns) Close() {
+// take returns the messages of Tell that wait for a request of run, and
+// removes them.
+func (r *SubagentRuns) take(run *SubagentRun) []Message {
r.mutex.Lock()
- r.closed = true
- for _, run := range r.running {
- run.cancel()
- }
- r.mutex.Unlock()
+ defer r.mutex.Unlock()
- r.workers.Wait()
+ messages := run.pending
+ run.pending = nil
+
+ return messages
}
// SubagentRun is one run of a subagent: the view that its requests get, its
-// effort, and the end of its context.
+// effort, the end of its context, and the messages of Tell that wait for a
+// request. The mutex of SubagentRuns protects the messages.
type SubagentRun struct {
subagent *Subagent
view []string
effort string
cancel context.CancelFunc
+ pending []Message
}
// subagentReport returns the report of the subagent name with its replies: the
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