I also introduced a new eval to prove the encouragement actually makes a
difference.
Release Notes:
- Improved agent behavior when streaming edits, encouraging it to
editing files as opposed to creating them from scratch
Nathan here: I also tacked on a bunch of UI refinement.
Release Notes:
- Introduced the ability to follow the agent around as it reads and
edits files.
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Co-authored-by: Nathan Sobo <nathan@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Max Brunsfeld <maxbrunsfeld@gmail.com>
Refs #29733
This pull request introduces a new field to the `StreamingEditFileTool`
that lets the model create or overwrite a file in a streaming way. When
one of the `assistant.stream_edits` setting / `agent-stream-edits`
feature flag is enabled, we are going to disable the `CreateFileTool` so
that the agent model can only use `StreamingEditFileTool` for file
creation.
Release Notes:
- N/A
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Co-authored-by: Ben Brandt <benjamin.j.brandt@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Oleksiy Syvokon <oleksiy.syvokon@gmail.com>
This pull request introduces a new tool for streaming edits. The
short-term goal is for this tool to replace the existing `EditFileTool`,
but we want to get this out the door as soon as possible so that we can
start testing it.
`StreamingEditFileTool` is mutually exclusive with `EditFileTool`. It
will be enabled by default for anyone who has the `agent-stream-edits`
feature flag, as well as people that set `assistant.stream_edits` to
`true` in their settings.
### Implementation
Streaming is achieved by requesting a completion while the `edit_file`
tool gets called. We invoke the model by taking the existing
conversation with the agent and appending a prompt specifically tailored
for editing. In that prompt, we ask the model to produce a stream of
`<old_text>`/`<new_text>` tags. As the model streams text in, we
incrementally parse it and start editing as soon as we can.
### Evals
Note that, as part of this pull request, I also defined some new evals
that I used to drive the behavior of the recursive LLM call. To run
them, use this command:
```bash
cargo test --package=assistant_tools --features eval -- eval_extract_handle_command_output
```
Or comment out the `#[cfg_attr(not(feature = "eval"), ignore)]` macro.
I recommend running them one at a time, because right now we don't
really have a way of orchestrating of all these evals. I think we should
invest into that effort once the new agent panel goes live.
Release Notes:
- N/A
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Co-authored-by: Nathan Sobo <nathan@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Bennet Bo Fenner <bennetbo@gmx.de>
Co-authored-by: Oleksiy Syvokon <oleksiy.syvokon@gmail.com>
