Registering pre-built Autogen-AgentChat agents in Autogen-Core v0.4

[ericlabouve-sn]

Hi team.
I am working with autogen-core v0.4 and I find myself repeating agent implementations that already exist in autogen-agentchat v0.4. According to autogen-core documentation, the correct way to register an agent with a runtime (such as SingleThreadedAgentRuntime) is to call the runtime() class method of the RoutedAgent class. From what I can tell, all agents packaged with autogen-agentchat v0.4 do not extend RoutedAgent and therefor do not have access to this register() class method. Is it currently possible or will future releases allow agents defined in autogen-agentchat to register with runtimes from autogen-core? If currently possible, would you please provide an example?
Thank you!

[ekzhu]

It's not possible to register an agentchat agent with a runtime directly. You can however create a wrapper that takes an agent chat agent as part of its constructor.

If you are interested you can take a look at the ChatAgentContainer class in AgentChat framework code. This is how we currently run the agents on runtime in AgentChat.

We may expose ChatAgentContainer or provide a similar convenience class in the future to make it easy. However, different applications may expect different message protocols and thus the container will be different.

For now, write your own container RoutedAgent class that takes an AgentChat agent is the way to go.

[ericlabouve-sn]

Makes sense thank you!