Turn-based Conversation with Agents

[PaulSGit1]

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Question

Hi, I have the following question:
Let's say I have an usecase where I need to ask the user for several inputs turn-based.
So first question is his name, afterwards I ask him for his age.

How would I achieve this the best way possible with the SDK?
I need to incooperate such tasks with my existing agents which process these informations later down the line to make informed decisions.

Any help or point into a direction would be super helpful!

Thanks,
Paul

[heartkilla]

Take a look at the "customer service" example:

openai-agents-python/examples/customer_service/main.py

Lines 144 to 165 in 951193b

	while True:
	user_input = input("Enter your message: ")
	with trace("Customer service", group_id=conversation_id):
	input_items.append({"content": user_input, "role": "user"})
	result = await Runner.run(current_agent, input_items, context=context)
	for new_item in result.new_items:
	agent_name = new_item.agent.name
	if isinstance(new_item, MessageOutputItem):
	print(f"{agent_name}: {ItemHelpers.text_message_output(new_item)}")
	elif isinstance(new_item, HandoffOutputItem):
	print(
	f"Handed off from {new_item.source_agent.name} to {new_item.target_agent.name}"
	)
	elif isinstance(new_item, ToolCallItem):
	print(f"{agent_name}: Calling a tool")
	elif isinstance(new_item, ToolCallOutputItem):
	print(f"{agent_name}: Tool call output: {new_item.output}")
	else:
	print(f"{agent_name}: Skipping item: {new_item.__class__.__name__}")
	input_items = result.to_input_list()
	current_agent = result.last_agent

[rm-openai]

If you want to ask a fixed list of questions, you can just build that directly (e.g. via a form or a Q&A type system).

If you have a non-fixed list of questions, or want to get an Agent to check the answers, you can check out the Customer Service example mentioned above! You can also prompt the agent e.g. by saying "Ask the user about their name, age, etc. Go back and forth until you have all the required information".