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Accessing Beans

Accessing other components or beans in the Arc DSL is vital for building complex Agents. This can simply be done by using the get function.

The get function requires a type and uses that type to lookup your bean.

For example,

agent {
    name = "agentFallback"
    prompt {
        val myBean = get<MyBean>()
        "Integrate data from $myBean" 
    }
}

The get function can be called anywhere within the DSL.

Beans can be passed to an Agent directly when calling the Agent.

val result = agent.execute(conversation, setOf(myBean, yourBean))

Additionally, a BeanProvider can be provided to an Agent on creation.

val agent = ChatAgent(beanProvider, ...)

Note: When using the Arc Spring Boot Starter all beans from the Spring Boot container are accessible from the get function.

The BeanProvider​

The class that provides the beans is the BeanProvider.

interface BeanProvider {

    suspend fun <T : Any> provide(bean: KClass<T>): T
}

You are free to implement the BeanProvider interface to suit your needs. Or use some of the implementations provided by the Arc Framework.