AG2 (formerly AutoGen)
What is AG2 (formerly AutoGen)?
AG2 is an open-source framework and agent platform for building, coordinating, evaluating, and deploying AI agents. Formerly known as AutoGen, AG2 is described by its developers as a community-driven continuation of the original AutoGen project. Its current product page presents AgentOS, which adds a visual and low-code environment for managing agent teams and deploying them for organizational use.
Key Capabilities
- Agent development and coordination: Developers define agents, roles, tools, and conversation patterns such as group chat, supervisor, round-robin, and automatic selection.
- Cross-framework orchestration: AgentOS is designed to coordinate agents built with AG2 and other frameworks, including Google ADK, OpenAI, and LangChain. It uses a shared state layer and agent communication protocols, including Agent-to-Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- Human oversight: Agents can hand work to people for intervention or feedback. The framework also supports human-in-the-loop interactions during agent conversations.
- Evaluation and tracing: AG2’s framework documentation describes evaluating agents against task datasets with configurable scorers. Runs can produce OpenTelemetry traces containing model responses, tool calls, results, and human input.
- Governance and deployment: AgentOS describes role-based access, permission boundaries, parallel tests against reference datasets, and deployment to web, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or through a headless SDK.
Audience & Use Cases
AG2 is intended for developers and organizations building multi-agent applications, such as research assistants, coding workflows, document-processing systems, and internal agent applications. AgentOS extends the framework with tools for testing, coordinating, governing, and distributing agents.
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What is AG2 (formerly AutoGen)?
AG2 is an open-source framework and agent platform for building, coordinating, evaluating, and deploying AI agents. Formerly known as AutoGen, AG2 is described by its developers as a community-driven continuation of the original AutoGen project. Its current product page presents AgentOS, which adds a visual and low-code environment for managing agent teams and deploying them for organizational use.