AssistantAgent first "think" before calling a tool.

[ekzhu]

When using gpt-4o or similar models with the autogen_agentchat.agents.AssistantAgent, it often just calls the tool directly without first responding with a message that says what tool it will call.

It would be good to show how to either properly prompt the model to make it responds with a "thought" message first before calling tools or build in some mechanism in AssistantAgent that will trigger this behavior.

Second thing I am facing is not being able to get LLM to send message before calling tool.

This is a good idea. Have you tried providing some in-context learning examples in the system message, or through the model_context parameter of AssistantAgent, by adding a few pairs of UserMessage and AssistantMessage in the initial_message field?

Originally posted by @ekzhu in #4886 (comment)

[SuMiaoALi]

You can use prompt words to constrain, which is what I do, so that the big model can give an execution plan before taking action

Answer requirements

• Remember, before each action is executed, please clearly inform the user of your execution plan.

I added it like this, it will basically give an execution plan first

[ekzhu]

@SuMiaoALi thanks for the suggestion.

Could you create a PR to add a tip on how to trigger the "first think then execute" through prompting in the tutorial?

autogen/python/packages/autogen-core/docs/src/user-guide/agentchat-user-guide/tutorial/agents.ipynb

Lines 196 to 197 in d99fb23

	"## Using Tools\n",
	"\n",

You can use

```{tip}
Your prompting tip here.
```