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# AutoGen
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-> - (12/19/24) Hello!
-The majority of the AutoGen Team members will be resting and recharging with family and friends over the holiday period. Activity/responses on the project may be delayed during the period of Dec 20-Jan 06. We will be excited to engage with you in the new year!
-> - (12/11/24) We have created a new Discord server for the AutoGen community. Join us at [aka.ms/autogen-discord](https://aka.ms/autogen-discord).
-> - (11/14/24) ⚠️ In response to a number of asks to clarify and distinguish between official AutoGen and its forks that created confusion, we issued a [clarification statement](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/discussions/4217).
-> - (10/13/24) Interested in the standard AutoGen as a prior user? Find it at the actively-maintained *AutoGen* [0.2 branch](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/tree/0.2) and `autogen-agentchat~=0.2` PyPi package.
-> - (10/02/24) [AutoGen 0.4](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/dev) is a from-the-ground-up rewrite of AutoGen. Learn more about the history, goals and future at [this blog post](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/blog). We’re excited to work with the community to gather feedback, refine, and improve the project before we officially release 0.4. This is a big change, so AutoGen 0.2 is still available, maintained, and developed in the [0.2 branch](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/tree/0.2).
-> - *[Join us for Community Office Hours](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/discussions/4059)* We will host a weekly open discussion to answer questions, talk about Roadmap, etc.
+**AutoGen** is a framework for creating multi-agent AI applications that can act autonomously or work alongside humans.
-AutoGen is an open-source framework for building AI agent systems.
-It simplifies the creation of event-driven, distributed, scalable, and resilient agentic applications.
-It allows you to quickly build systems where AI agents collaborate and perform tasks autonomously
-or with human oversight.
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-- [Key Features](#key-features)
-- [API Layering](#api-layering)
-- [Quickstart](#quickstart)
-- [Roadmap](#roadmap)
-- [FAQs](#faqs)
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-AutoGen streamlines AI development and research, enabling the use of multiple large language models (LLMs), integrated tools, and advanced multi-agent design patterns. You can develop and test your agent systems locally, then deploy to a distributed cloud environment as your needs grow.
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-## Key Features
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-AutoGen offers the following key features:
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-- **Asynchronous Messaging**: Agents communicate via asynchronous messages, supporting both event-driven and request/response interaction patterns.
-- **Full type support**: use types in all interfaces and enforced type check on build, with a focus on quality and cohesiveness
-- **Scalable & Distributed**: Design complex, distributed agent networks that can operate across organizational boundaries.
-- **Modular & Extensible**: Customize your system with pluggable components: custom agents, tools, memory, and models.
-- **Cross-Language Support**: Interoperate agents across different programming languages. Currently supports Python and .NET, with more languages coming soon.
-- **Observability & Debugging**: Built-in features and tools for tracking, tracing, and debugging agent interactions and workflows, including support for industry standard observability with OpenTelemetry
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