Added research on the web to the BeyondFacts Lab (#1186)

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using System.Collections.Frozen;
using AIStudio.Provider;
using AIStudio.Settings;
using AIStudio.Tools.AssistantSessions;
using AIStudio.Tools.ToolCallingSystem;
namespace AIStudio.Assistants.BeyondFactsLab;
/// <summary>
/// Researches the context of an event on the web, with one agent for each topic, see BflResearchTopic.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>
/// Each agent works in a hidden chat of its own, which the person never sees and the lab never stores. It receives
/// nothing but the public details about the event, see BflPromptComposer.ComposeResearch: no other detail, no material,
/// no work state, and no conversation of the preparation. That is the point of the separation: the chats of the steps
/// know the whole preparation, which may be unpublished, and therefore never search the web themselves.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// A single answer may call tools only so often, see ToolSelectionRules.MAX_TOOL_CALLS, so each topic gets an agent and
/// a budget of its own, and the agents run side by side. Like the conversations, a singleton, so that the work goes on
/// while the person looks at another page.
/// </para>
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="store">The store of the lab.</param>
/// <param name="conversations">The conversations of the lab, whose checks of a provider the research shares.</param>
/// <param name="toolRegistry">The registry of the tools.</param>
/// <param name="settingsManager">The settings.</param>
/// <param name="sessionService">The registry of running assistant sessions.</param>
/// <param name="messageBus">The message bus, for errors.</param>
/// <param name="logger">The logger.</param>
public sealed class BflResearchRunner(BeyondFactsLabStore store, BflConversationService conversations, ToolRegistry toolRegistry, SettingsManager settingsManager, AssistantSessionService sessionService, MessageBus messageBus, ILogger<BflResearchRunner> logger)
{
/// <summary>
/// The request which lets an agent start its research. German, like the prompts.
/// </summary>
public const string REQUEST = "Recherchiere jetzt, wie es die Abschnitte „Dein Auftrag“ und „Vorgehen“ beschreiben, und antworte in der Form des Abschnitts „Form“.";
/// <summary>
/// The tools of a research agent: it searches the web and reads the pages it found.
/// </summary>
public static readonly FrozenSet<string> TOOL_IDS = FrozenSet.Create(StringComparer.Ordinal, ToolSelectionRules.WEB_SEARCH_TOOL_ID, ToolSelectionRules.READ_WEB_PAGE_TOOL_ID);
private static string TA(string fallbackEN) => Tools.PluginSystem.I18N.I.TA(fallbackEN, typeof(BflResearchRunner).Namespace, nameof(BflResearchRunner));
/// <summary>
/// The research the agents do right now.
/// </summary>
private readonly HashSet<BflResearchLocation> running = [];
/// <summary>
/// Guards the research the agents do right now.
/// </summary>
private readonly Lock runningLock = new();
/// <summary>
/// Happens when an agent starts or ends its research, and when a new research is stored.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Called on the thread of the request. A page renders through InvokeAsync.
/// </remarks>
public event Func<BflResearchLocation, Task>? ResearchChanged;
/// <summary>
/// Tells whether an agent does a research right now.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="location">The research.</param>
public bool IsRunning(BflResearchLocation location)
{
lock (this.runningLock)
return this.running.Contains(location);
}
/// <summary>
/// Checks whether the research can search the web with a provider.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="provider">The provider of the preparation.</param>
/// <returns>What keeps each tool of the research from being offered.</returns>
public Task<BflResearchAvailability> CheckAvailabilityAsync(AIStudio.Settings.Provider provider) => BflResearchAvailability.CheckAsync(toolRegistry, provider);
/// <summary>
/// Lets the agents of every topic research side by side, each replacing its earlier research.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="projectId">The ID of the preparation.</param>
/// <param name="provider">The provider of the preparation.</param>
public Task RunAllAsync(Guid projectId, AIStudio.Settings.Provider provider) => Task.WhenAll(BflResearchTopic.All.Select(topic => this.RunAsync(new BflResearchLocation(projectId, topic), provider)));
/// <summary>
/// Starts the research on every topic which has none yet, or whose public details changed since, e.g., once the
/// person confirmed the event details.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// It starts nothing and tells nothing while the event is not public, while the research cannot search the web, or
/// while the person entered no public detail yet: then the area "Research" says why. It returns once the agents
/// started, not when they are done; what goes wrong in their work is reported through the message bus.
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="projectId">The ID of the preparation.</param>
/// <param name="provider">The provider of the preparation.</param>
/// <param name="forms">The forms of the preparation, by their steps.</param>
/// <returns>The topics whose research started.</returns>
public async Task<IReadOnlyList<BflResearchTopic>> StartWhenDueAsync(Guid projectId, AIStudio.Settings.Provider provider, IReadOnlyDictionary<BflStep, BflStepFormData> forms)
{
var details = BflPromptComposer.PublicDetailsOf(forms);
if (BflEventVisibility.IsNotPublic(forms) || details.Count is 0 || !(await this.CheckAvailabilityAsync(provider)).CanResearch)
return [];
var topics = TopicsDue(await store.LoadAllResearchAsync(projectId), details).Where(topic => !this.IsRunning(new BflResearchLocation(projectId, topic))).ToList();
if (topics.Count > 0)
_ = Task.WhenAll(topics.Select(topic => this.RunAsync(new BflResearchLocation(projectId, topic), provider)));
return topics;
}
/// <summary>
/// Finds the topics which need a research: those without one, and those whose public details changed since.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="research">The research of the preparation, by its topics.</param>
/// <param name="details">The public details about the event as they are now.</param>
/// <returns>The topics, in their order.</returns>
public static IReadOnlyList<BflResearchTopic> TopicsDue(IReadOnlyDictionary<BflResearchTopic, BflResearch> research, IReadOnlyList<BflResearchDetail> details) =>
[.. BflResearchTopic.All.Where(topic => !research.TryGetValue(topic, out var found) || found.IsOutdated(details))];
/// <summary>
/// Lets the agent of a topic research and stores what it found, replacing its earlier research.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// What goes wrong is reported through the message bus; the method itself does not fail.
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="location">The research.</param>
/// <param name="provider">The provider of the preparation.</param>
public async Task RunAsync(BflResearchLocation location, AIStudio.Settings.Provider provider)
{
var hidden = BflThreadFactory.CreateHidden($"research-{location.Topic.FileStem}");
if (!await conversations.CheckProviderAsync(new BflStepThreadLocation(location.ProjectId, BflStep.STRATEGY), hidden, provider))
return;
var availability = await this.CheckAvailabilityAsync(provider);
if (!availability.CanResearch)
{
await messageBus.SendError(new(Icons.Material.Filled.TravelExplore, availability.Message));
return;
}
lock (this.runningLock)
{
if (!this.running.Add(location))
return;
}
var sessionKey = SessionKey(location);
var sessionId = Guid.Empty;
var status = AssistantSessionStatus.FAILED;
try
{
// The forms on disk decide, since the person may have changed them since the research was asked for:
var forms = await store.LoadFormsAsync(location.ProjectId);
if (BflEventVisibility.IsNotPublic(forms))
{
await messageBus.SendError(new(Icons.Material.Filled.PublicOff, BflEventVisibility.NotPublicMessage));
return;
}
var details = BflPromptComposer.PublicDetailsOf(forms);
if (details.Count is 0)
{
await messageBus.SendError(new(Icons.Material.Filled.TravelExplore, string.Format(TA("Please enter public details about the event first, in the step '{0}', such as its topic or its link. The research receives these details only."), BflStep.FRAMEWORK.Title)));
return;
}
var language = (await settingsManager.GetActiveLanguagePlugin()).LangName;
var parts = await BflPromptLibrary.LoadResearchPartsAsync(location.Topic, conversations.PromptOverridesDirectory);
BflThreadFactory.PrepareForRequest(hidden, provider, BflPromptComposer.ComposeResearch(parts, details, language), TOOL_IDS);
var cancellation = new CancellationTokenSource();
sessionId = (await sessionService.TryBeginAsync(sessionKey, Tools.Components.BEYOND_FACTS_LAB_ASSISTANT.Name, cancellation, null, new(StringComparer.Ordinal))).SessionId;
await this.NotifyAsync(location);
var answer = await BflHiddenRequest.AskForAnswerAsync(hidden, provider, REQUEST, [], cancellation.Token);
if (cancellation.IsCancellationRequested)
{
status = AssistantSessionStatus.CANCELED;
return;
}
var research = BflResearch.Of(answer.Text, answer.ToolInvocations, answer.Sources, details, DateTimeOffset.UtcNow);
if (research.Text.Length is 0)
{
logger.LogWarning("The agent wrote no text for the research '{Location}' of the BeyondFacts Lab.", location.Key);
await messageBus.SendError(new(Icons.Material.Filled.ErrorOutline, TA("The research ended without a result. Please try again, or try another provider.")));
return;
}
await store.SaveResearchAsync(location.ProjectId, location.Topic, research);
status = AssistantSessionStatus.COMPLETED;
}
catch (OperationCanceledException)
{
status = AssistantSessionStatus.CANCELED;
}
catch (BflPromptOverrideException exception)
{
logger.LogWarning(exception, "A prompt override of the BeyondFacts Lab has a placeholder which the lab does not fill.");
await messageBus.SendError(new(Icons.Material.Filled.ErrorOutline, string.Format(TA("The file '{0}' in the test folder of the BeyondFacts Lab contains the placeholder '{1}', which the lab does not fill in this file. Please correct the file and try again."), exception.FileName, exception.Placeholder)));
}
catch (ProviderRequestException exception)
{
logger.LogError(exception, "The provider request for a research of the BeyondFacts Lab failed. Status={StatusCode}, Reason='{ReasonPhrase}'.", exception.StatusCode, exception.ReasonPhrase);
await messageBus.SendError(new(Icons.Material.Filled.CloudOff, exception.UserMessage));
}
catch (FileNotFoundException)
{
// The person deleted the preparation while the agent researched; nothing is left to store.
}
catch (Exception exception) when (exception is IOException or UnauthorizedAccessException or InvalidDataException or FormatException)
{
logger.LogError(exception, "The BeyondFacts Lab could not do the research '{Location}'.", location.Key);
await messageBus.SendError(new(Icons.Material.Filled.SaveAs, TA("AI Studio could not finish this research. Please try again.")));
}
finally
{
lock (this.runningLock)
this.running.Remove(location);
if (sessionId != Guid.Empty)
{
await sessionService.CompleteAsync(sessionKey, sessionId, status, string.Empty, null, new(StringComparer.Ordinal));
await sessionService.ClearAsync(sessionKey);
}
await this.NotifyAsync(location);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Stops the agent of a topic.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="location">The research.</param>
public Task CancelAsync(BflResearchLocation location) => sessionService.CancelAsync(SessionKey(location));
/// <summary>
/// Tells every page which listens that a research changed.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="location">The research.</param>
private async Task NotifyAsync(BflResearchLocation location)
{
if (this.ResearchChanged is not { } handlers)
return;
foreach (var handler in handlers.GetInvocationList().Cast<Func<BflResearchLocation, Task>>())
{
try
{
await handler(location);
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
// A page which went away meanwhile must not stop the work:
logger.LogDebug(exception, "A page of the BeyondFacts Lab could not show a change of a research.");
}
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the key under which a research registers in AssistantSessionService, beside the conversations.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="location">The research.</param>
private static AssistantSessionKey SessionKey(BflResearchLocation location) => new(Tools.Components.BEYOND_FACTS_LAB_ASSISTANT, location.Key);
}