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Fetch.ai is your gateway to the agentic economy. It provides a full ecosystem for building, deploying, and discovering AI Agents.
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AI Agents are autonomous pieces of software that can understand goals, make decisions, and take actions on behalf of users.
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Build and Register AI Agents on Agentverse, discoverable via ASI:One, that turn user intent into real, executable outcomes.
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This file can be run on any platform supporting Python, with the necessary install permissions. This example shows two agents communicating with each other using the uAgent python library.
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from datetime import datetime
from uuid import uuid4
from uagents.setup import fund_agent_if_low
from uagents_core.contrib.protocols.chat import (
ChatAcknowledgement,
ChatMessage,
EndSessionContent,
StartSessionContent,
TextContent,
chat_protocol_spec,
)
agent = Agent()
# Initialize the chat protocol with the standard chat spec
chat_proto = Protocol(spec=chat_protocol_spec)
# Utility function to wrap plain text into a ChatMessage
def create_text_chat(text: str, end_session: bool = False) -> ChatMessage:
content = [TextContent(type="text", text=text)]
return ChatMessage(
timestamp=datetime.utcnow(),
msg_id=uuid4(),
content=content,
)
# Handle incoming chat messages
@chat_proto.on_message(ChatMessage)
async def handle_message(ctx: Context, sender: str, msg: ChatMessage):
ctx.logger.info(f"Received message from {sender}")
# Always send back an acknowledgement when a message is received
await ctx.send(sender, ChatAcknowledgement(timestamp=datetime.utcnow(), acknowledged_msg_id=msg.msg_id))
# Process each content item inside the chat message
for item in msg.content:
# Marks the start of a chat session
if isinstance(item, StartSessionContent):
ctx.logger.info(f"Session started with {sender}")
# Handles plain text messages (from another agent or ASI:One)
elif isinstance(item, TextContent):
ctx.logger.info(f"Text message from {sender}: {item.text}")
#Add your logic
# Example: respond with a message describing the result of a completed task
response_message = create_text_chat("Hello from Agent")
await ctx.send(sender, response_message)
# Marks the end of a chat session
elif isinstance(item, EndSessionContent):
ctx.logger.info(f"Session ended with {sender}")
# Catches anything unexpected
else:
ctx.logger.info(f"Received unexpected content type from {sender}")
# Handle acknowledgements for messages this agent has sent out
@chat_proto.on_message(ChatAcknowledgement)
async def handle_acknowledgement(ctx: Context, sender: str, msg: ChatAcknowledgement):
ctx.logger.info(f"Received acknowledgement from {sender} for message {msg.acknowledged_msg_id}")
# Include the chat protocol and publish the manifest to Agentverse
agent.include(chat_proto, publish_manifest=True)
if __name__ == "__main__":
agent.run()
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