Skills versus Tools?
scruffynerf opened this issue · comments
I'm confused on how you are using Skills vs Tools. While you prompt for both, and make json for both...
Skills are specific files of python code, to do 'this action'.
Tools are used by OpenAI, to do 'this action'
But in the actual Autogen Studio code, 'tools' are used to call skills.
This seems redundant, and I'm curious if why we need both created. Skills is the right answer, "tools" is only how skills get called in the final code.
(I'm trying to write a better set of prompts)
This is where Autogen kind of diverges from the SOP of other agent
architectures by conflating the two.
The de facto standard is that 'tools' are single-purpose:
retrieve_html(url), html_to_markup(html), etc.
...whereas skills are the next higher operational level that uses skills:
get_website_as_markup(), for example, could call both the aforementioned
'tools'.
A simpler real-world analogy is: hammer is a tool, carpentry is a skill.
While AutoGroq™ was originally intended to be Autogen and Groq specific,
the user base has insisted upon a wider scope of operations. So
placeholders for both skills and tools have been accounted for...
…-jjg
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I'm confused on how you are using Skills vs Tools. While you prompt for
both, and make json for both...
Skills are specific *files* of python code, to do 'this action'.
Tools are used by OpenAI, to do 'this action'
But in the actual Autogen Studio code, 'tools' are used to call *skills*.
This seems redundant, and I'm curious if why we need both created. Skills
is the right answer, "tools" is only how skills get called in the final
code.
(I'm trying to write a better set of prompts)
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