* fixed types related to function calling

* polishing

* fixed types in tests

* Add isort

* Apply isort on py files

* Fix circular import

* Fix format for notebooks

* Fix format

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Co-authored-by: Chi Wang <wang.chi@microsoft.com>

* 1) Removed most framework sleeps 2) refactored connection code

* pre-commit fixes

* pre-commit

* ignore protobuf files in pre-commit checks

* Fix duplicate actor registration

* refactor change

* Nicer printing of Actors

* 1) Report recv_multipart errors 4) Always send 4 parts

* AutoGen generate_reply expects to wait indefinitely for an answer.  CAP can wait a certain amount and give up.   In order to reconcile the two, AutoGenConnector is set to wait indefinitely.

* pre-commit formatting fixes

* pre-commit format changes

* don't check autogenerated proto py files

* Introducing IOStream

* bug fixing

* polishing

* refactoring

* refactoring

* refactoring

* wip: async tests

* websockets added

* wip

* merge with main

* notebook added

* FastAPI example added

* wip

* merge

* getter/setter to iostream added

* website/blog/2024-03-03-AutoGen-Update/img/dalle_gpt4v.png: convert to Git LFS

* website/blog/2024-03-03-AutoGen-Update/img/gaia.png: convert to Git LFS

* website/blog/2024-03-03-AutoGen-Update/img/teach.png: convert to Git LFS

* add SSL support

* wip

* wip

* exception handling added to on_connect()

* refactoring: default iostream is being set in a context manager

* test fix

* polishing

* polishing

* polishing

* fixed bug with new thread

* polishing

* a bit of refactoring and docs added

* notebook added to docs

* type checking added to CI

* CI fix

* CI fix

* CI fix

* polishing

* obsolete todo comment removed

* fixed precommit error

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Co-authored-by: Eric Zhu <ekzhu@users.noreply.github.com>

* Add mypy check in pre-commit

* Add mypy check in pre-commit

* bug fix

* CI fix

* add python version matrix for checking types in CI

* added 3.12 to CI

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Co-authored-by: Eric Zhu <ekzhu@users.noreply.github.com>

* update pre-commit

* update pre-commit.ci

* lint fix

* code executor

* test

* revert to main conversable agent

* prepare for pr

* kernel

* run open ai tests only when it's out of draft status

* update workflow file

* revert workflow changes

* ipython executor

* check kernel installed; fix tests

* fix tests

* fix tests

* update system prompt

* Update notebook, more tests

* notebook

* raise instead of return None

* allow user provided code executor.

* fixing types

* wip

* refactoring

* polishing

* fixed failing tests

* resolved merge conflict

* fixing failing test

* wip

* local command line executor and embedded ipython executor

* revert notebook

* fix format

* fix merged error

* fix lmm test

* fix lmm test

* move warning

* name and description should be part of the agent protocol, reset is not as it is only used for ConversableAgent; removing accidentally commited file

* version for dependency

* Update autogen/agentchat/conversable_agent.py

Co-authored-by: Jack Gerrits <jackgerrits@users.noreply.github.com>

* ordering of protocol

* description

* fix tests

* make ipython executor dependency optional

* update document optional dependencies

* Remove exclude from Agent protocol

* Make ConversableAgent consistent with Agent

* fix tests

* add doc string

* add doc string

* fix notebook

* fix interface

* merge and update agents

* disable config usage in reply function

* description field setter

* customize system message update

* update doc

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Co-authored-by: Davor Runje <davor@airt.ai>
Co-authored-by: Jack Gerrits <jackgerrits@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Aaron <aaronlaptop12@hotmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Chi Wang <wang.chi@microsoft.com>

* Add mypy config to pyproject.toml

* put back follow_imports

* ignore math utils

* unify config to pyproject.toml
replace flake8 with Ruff

* drop configs

* update

* fixing

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Zvi Baratz <z.baratz@gmail.com>

* setup

* ci

* pr template

* reword

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Co-authored-by: Zvi Baratz <z.baratz@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Li Jiang <lijiang1@microsoft.com>