Doubt regarding the triggering of agent actions

[govardhan-06]

Can we trigger agent actions like sending message and payment request through FastAPI routes. By that I mean, when a particular route is hit, it must trigger a particular agent action like sending message.

[abhifetch]

Hi @govardhan-06 ,

Thanks for reaching out with your query here. uAgents library has different decorators which you can use to trigger any action from agent's side.

1. on_event : This can help you trigger something on agent's startup and shutdown
2. on_interval : This allows agent to perform something in set amount of time interval, like to check if agent is active.
3. on_message : This works when agent gets any message from another agent. (You can include any function in here to be executed). You can create different on_message handlers for different data Models.
4. on_interval: This works same as on_message but instead of trigger on other agent's message it can be queried from your applications directly. Like in the case you are asking for.

If you need more info on these please refer below docs:
https://fetch.ai/docs/examples/intermediate/react_example#on_query-handler-to-handle-webpage-wrapping

In case you need more support on this or have any further queries, feel free to carry this discussion forward. If you have query related to a different topic, I will suggest to create a new discussion.

[abhifetch]

Query has been answered, feel free to open the discussion in case you have any further doubts on triggering agents.

Thanks,
Abhi

[jrriehl]

Thanks for the discussion. In the near future, we plan to release support for native REST endpoints for agents, where you will be able to query and trigger agent events just as you described. There is already a draft pull request for this feature, that we are in the process of fleshing out: fetchai/uAgents#357.