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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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Quick start example
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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Chief Development Officer - Fetch.ai
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