v1.8.0

New features ⭐️

• We added visualization method to display the agent' structure as a tree! 🌳 by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/470

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• We vastly simplified managed agents in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/484

  • We've removed the ManagedAgents class: directly provide name and description attributes to your agent to make it work as a managed agent ! Check an example here.

• We released Open Deep Research in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/317!

Fixes 🔧

• Bump dev version: v1.8.0.dev0 by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/451
• Add ToC and CLI docs by @merveenoyan in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/455
• Fix link to Helium repository in README.md by @dross20 in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/471
• Remove default max_tokens for all models by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/475
• Improve Readme: shorter intro, VLMs, MCP, etc by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/459
• Fix SpeechToTextTool new instance by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/478
• Allow flatten_messages_as_text to be pushed via LiteLLMModel to fix Ollama integration by @sysradium in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/406
• Fixed demo typo in README.md by @hanteed in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/481
• Added HfApiModel import to web browser example by @sergiopaniego in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/461
• Minor Fix tool push_to_hub by @keetrap in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/460
• Fix link in README.md by @vanrohan in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/496
• Fix undefined step_number in single_step run by @taha-yassine in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/495
• Bump litellm to 1.60.2 (fixes #34) by @taha-yassine in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/488
• Initialize step_number attribute by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/497
• Suppress terminal logging in CI tests by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/504
• Fix link in README.md by @Ryanb58 in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/492
• Test PrintContainer by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/515
• Add missing default tools to reference docs by @touseefahmed96 in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/516
• Refactor prompts by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/502
• Fix Typo by @rehanzo in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/529
• Test HfApiModel call with custom_role_conversions by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/517
• Set MAX_WHILE_ITERATIONS as module variable by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/520
• add self.logger = logger for e2b_executor by @femto in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/537
• Create simpler example open-deep-research by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/534
• Support disabling logging to terminal by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/512
• Fix installation with data files by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/536
• Pin openinference-instrumentation-smolagents >= 0.1.4 by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/535
• Delete prompts_path argument and use prompt_templates by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/541
• Fix deprecation warning from importlib.resources.read_text by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/543
• Delete non-exisiting accelerate extra by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/539
• Fix some doc examples by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/542
• Test E2B Executor by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/540

New Contributors

• @dross20 made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/471
• @sysradium made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/406
• @hanteed made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/481
• @vanrohan made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/496
• @taha-yassine made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/495
• @Ryanb58 made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/492
• @rehanzo made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/529
• @femto made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/537

Full Changelog: https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/compare/v1.7.0...v1.8.0