AI engineering glossary · Agents tools MCP
What is autoGen?
AutoGen: An open-source framework from Microsoft researchers for building applications in which multiple conversable agents exchange messages, use tools and involve humans to solve tasks. It popularised conversation-based multi-agent design, where agents solve problems by chatting.
AutoGen: an example
A developer sets up an assistant agent and a code-executor agent that chat until a script runs correctly.
Related terms
- Multi-agent system
- CrewAI
- LangGraph
- Agent communication
More Agents tools MCP terms
- Autonomous agent
- Best-of-N sampling
- Browser agent
- Code agent
- Code interpreter tool
- Computer use
- Confused deputy problem
- Context compaction
Where you learn it
AutoGen is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.