AUTOGEN STUDIO: A No-Code Developer Tool for Building and Debugging Multi-Agent Systems

Victor Dibia, Jingya Chen, Gagan Bansal, Suff Syed, Adam Fourney, Erkang Zhu, Chi Wang, Saleema Amershi


Abstract
Multi-agent systems, where multiple agents (generative AI models + tools) collaborate, are emerging as an effective pattern for solving long-running, complex tasks in numerous do- mains. However, specifying their parameters (such as models, tools, and orchestration mechanisms etc,.) and debugging them remains challenging for most developers. To address this challenge, we present AUTOGEN STUDIO, a no-code developer tool for rapidly prototyping, debugging, and evaluating multi-agent work- flows built upon the AUTOGEN framework. AUTOGEN STUDIO offers a web interface and a Python API for representing LLM-enabled agents using a declarative (JSON-based) specification. It provides an intuitive drag-and-drop UI for agent workflow specification, interactive evaluation and debugging of workflows, and a gallery of reusable agent components. We highlight four design principles for no-code multi-agent developer tools and contribute an open-source implementation. https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/tree/autogenstudio/samples/apps/autogen-studio
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2024.emnlp-demo.8
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Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Delia Irazu Hernandez Farias, Tom Hope, Manling Li
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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72–79
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Victor Dibia, Jingya Chen, Gagan Bansal, Suff Syed, Adam Fourney, Erkang Zhu, Chi Wang, and Saleema Amershi. 2024. AUTOGEN STUDIO: A No-Code Developer Tool for Building and Debugging Multi-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 72–79, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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