* Re-commit of code from PR (#2167) addressing #1861, due to wrong basing

* Update website/docs/topics/non-openai-models/best-tips-for-nonopenai-models.md

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* Removed unnecessary notebook images

* Update conversation-patterns.ipynb

Updated to include note about being applicable when auto.

* Updated to include checks that the role is not blank/None. Added tests.

* Changed try-except to use pytest

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* multimodal carryover

* adds mm carryover tests

* more tests + cleanup code

* check content instead

* beibin suggestion

* cleanup

* fix async

* use deepcopy

* handle carryover method

* remove content copy

* sonichi suggestions

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* wip

* Adds docstrings

* fixed spellings

* wip

* fixed errors

* better class names

* adds tests

* added tests to workflow

* improved token counting

* improved notebook

* improved token counting in test

* improved docstrings

* fix inconsistencies

* changed by mistake

* fixed docstring

* fixed details

* improves tests + adds openai contrib test

* fix spelling oai contrib test

* clearer docstrings

* remove repeated docstr

* improved notebook

* adds metadata to notebook

* Improve outline and description (#2125)

* better dir structure

* clip max tokens to allowed tokens

* more accurate comments/docstrs

* add deperecation warning

* fix front matter desc

* add deperecation warning notebook

* undo local notebook settings changes

* format notebook

* format workflow

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* fixed get_stream in new thread by introducing a global default

* fixed get_stream in new thread by introducing a global default

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* simplify getting-started; update news

* bug fix

* Implement user defined functions feature for local cli exec, add docs

* add tests, update docs

* fixes

* fix test

* add pandas test dep

* install test

* provide template as func

* formatting

* undo change

* address comments

* add test deps

* formatting

* test only in 1 env

* formatting

* remove test for local only

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* Mark cache as a protocl and update type hints to reflect

* int

* undo init change

* 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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* draft agent optimizer

* refactor

* remove

* change openai config interface

* notebook

* update blog

* add test

* clean up

* redir

* update

* update interface

* change model name

* move to contrib

* Update autogen/agentchat/contrib/agent_optimizer.py

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* tried implementing my own regex

* improves tests

* finally works

* removes prints

* fixed test

* adds start and end

* delete unused imports

* refactored to use new tool

* significantly improved algo

* tag content -> tag attr

* fix tests + adds new field

* return full match

* return remove start and end

* update docstrings

* update docstrings

* update docstrings

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* context to kwargs

* add tag

* add test

* text to kwargs

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* Add vision capability

* Configurate: description_prompt

* Print warning instead of raising issues for type

* Skip vision capability test if dependencies not installed

* Append "vision" to agent's system message when enabled VisionCapability

* GPT-4V notebook update with ConversableAgent

* Clean GPT-4V notebook

* Add vision capability test to workflow

* Lint import

* Update system message for vision capability

* Add a `custom_caption_func` to VisionCapability

* Add custom function example for vision capability

* Skip test Vision capability custom func

* GPT-4V notebook metadata to website

* Remove redundant files

* The custom caption function takes more inputs now

* Add a more complex example of custom caption func

* Remove trailing space

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* fix

* adds tests

* check if windows

* adds windows shells

* modifies exit code

* fix powershell

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* Encapsulate colored into a module

* lint fix

* add missing file

* undo change

* conform with original colored func

* change import strategy

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* fix test_human_input

* shorten tests

* terminate chat early

* limit max turns

* limit max_rounds

* check skip_openai

* update pre-commit

* update pre-commit.ci

* lint fix

* macos bugfix

* logs permissionerror warning only if lang is powershell command

* condensed the if statements down

* Update code_utils.py

* fixed formatting

* handled powershell_command = None case

* bugfix

* raising exceptions instead of logging warnings

* code formatting fixed

* removed return sh statement

* fixed code formatting

* update get_powershell_command

* Update code_utils.py

fixed code format

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* adjust order of side bars

* doc improvement

* limit max turns

* improve tests

* improve doc

* improve docstr

* Request for longer response to make cache test more robust.

* 1000 words --> 100 words

* fix test

* Update test/agentchat/test_agent_logging.py

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* add assistant config

* add test

* change notebook to use assistant config

* use assistant config in testing

* code refinement

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* allow sender in nested chat

* description

* update example list

* doc format

* meta data

* add test

* adds image generation capability

* add todo

* readded cache

* wip

* fix content str bugs

* removed todo: delete imshow

* wip

* fix circular imports

* add notebook

* improve prompt

* improved text analyzer + notebook

* notebook update

* improve notebook

* smaller notebook size

* made changes to the wrong branch :(

* resolve comments + 1

* adds doc strings

* adds cache doc string

* adds doc string to add_to_agent

* adds doc string to ImageGeneration

* instructions are not configurable

* removed unnecessary imports

* changed doc string location

* more doc strings

* improves testability

* adds tests

* adds cache test

* added test to github workflow

* compatible llm config format

* configurable reply function position

* skip_openai + better comments

* fix test

* fix test?

* please fix test?

* last fix test?

* remove type hint

* skip cache test

* adds mock api key

* dalle-2 test

* fix dalle config

* use apu key function

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* init PR

* update

* update code check

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* Test the ability to have agents a,u,t,o,g,e,n speak in turn.

* update

* update

* update

* Evidence that groupchat not terminating because of the TERMINATE substring.

* Raising NoEligibleSpeakerException allows graceful exit before max turns

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* udpate to comments

* update

* Update website/blog/2024-02-29-StateFlow/index.mdx

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* update links

* remove unnecessary changes

* Update website/blog/2024-02-29-StateFlow/index.mdx

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* Update website/blog/2024-02-29-StateFlow/index.mdx

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* remove test for custom notebook

* update

* update

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* fix type and default value of the code_execution_config of UserProxAgent

* fix type and default value of the code_execution_config of UserProxAgent

* set default value of llm_config in UserProxyAgent to None

* fixed tests

* revert llm_config to False

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* consistent file saving across cli executors

* test fixes

* feedback

* make path

* formatting

* run timeout test on windows

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* Remove system message functionality from code executors

* remove from protocol

* fix tests, pre-commit

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* improve validation of llm_config

* fixed test_register_for_llm_without_LLM

* docstr about llm_config=None

* Make None a sentinel

* pop tools

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* add message field

* send

* message func doc str

* test dict message

* retiring soon

* generate_init_message docstr

* remove todo

* update notebook

* CompressibleAgent

* update notebook

* add test

* retrieve agent

* update test

* summary_method args

* summary

* carryover

* dict message

* update nested doc

* generate_init_message

* fix typo

* update docs for mathchat

* Fix missing message

* Add docstrings

* model

* notebook

* default naming

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* work in progress

* wip

* groupchat type hints

* clean up

* formatting

* formatting

* clean up

* address comments

* better comment

* updates docstring a_send

* resolve comments

* agent.py back to original format

* resolve more comments

* rename carryover type exception

* revert next_agent changes + keeping UndefinedNextagent

* fixed ciruclar dependencies?

* fix cache tests

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* fix mypy errors for logging

* cleanup

* formatting

* fix threading issue in logging

* remove kwarg

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* implement docker based command line code executor

* undo import

* test skips

* format

* fix type issue

* skip docker tests

* fix paths

* add docs

* Update __init__.py

* class name

* precommit

* undo twoagent change

* use relative to directly

* Update, fixes, etc.

* update doc

* Update docstring

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