Generating Assistants from a Function

[Tevyn]

I've had some success with creating agents via function calling. This performs much better than asking an assistant to produce the JSON with all the info we need.

Function for Creating Assistants

{
"name": "create_assistant",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The name of the new assistant"
},
"instructions": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Custom instructions for the assistant's behavior"
},
"tools": {
"type": "array",
"description": "List of tools to enable for the assistant",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"code_interpreter",
"retrieval"
]
}
},
"required": [
"type"
]
}
},
"model": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The model that the assistant should use"
}
},
"required": [
"name",
"instructions",
"tools",
"model"
]
},
"description": "Creates a new assistant with specified parameters"
}

Chat

[mikerhodesideas]

@Tevyn this is great - 2 questions / follow on thoughts...

1. how can this be tweaked to save an actual assistant to the list of assistants (eg in the playground)
   your code works great (I'm not a dev & I got it to work first time)
   but the 'assistant' only existed for that instance & when I refreshed, all the work was gone.

2. related.
   how can we create a collection of functions/tools/skills for an assistant that's also permanent over time?
   and...
   in a perfect world, that can update itself from the testing & prompts.
   eg I created an assistant & started to give it instructions.
   those instructions improved with each 'run' as I learnt better ways to tell the assistant what to do
   I'd love a way to 'update' the tools available
   and/or update the assistant
   so they get better over time.

(I realise this may be on a tangent to the 100% autonomous swarm that this repo is for... but I suspect solving the two questions above would ultimately help the overall mission too :)