v0.9: All Together Now

ControlFlow v0.9 is here and it's HUGE:

• New event-based backend that allows agent actions to be "compiled" on demand for different LLMs, workflow visibility, and more
• New lightweight DX, including the workhorse cf.run() function
• New Orchestrator for managing workflow execution
• New TurnStrategy objects for managing agent collaboration
• Completely rewritten documentation
• Custom result validation
• Full Prefect 3.0 support

What's Changed

New Features 🎉

• Add new compiler backend by @jlowin in #199
• Add new compiler backend (#199) by @jlowin in #200
• Add new compiler backend by @jlowin in #203
• Add diagnostic CLI by @jlowin in #205
• Support max iterations by @jlowin in #211
• support private tasks by @jlowin in #212
• Continue building out compilation pipeline by @jlowin in #221
• Update prompt customization by @jlowin in #226
• Improve basic round robin by @jlowin in #231
• Add stable ID for task/agent/team by @jlowin in #232
• Add configurable history visibility by @jlowin in #233
• Add async run and deprecate run_once by @jlowin in #234
• Don't create team of one agent by @jlowin in #243
• Clean up new backend by @jlowin in #246
• Give end-turn tool to the default team by @jlowin in #247
• expand support for lists of agents by @jlowin in #248
• Better support for complex options by @jlowin in #249
• Add support for Annotated result types on tasks by @jlowin in #262
• Add most busy turn strategy by @jlowin in #265
• Add support for custom result validators by @jlowin in #266
• Allow task decorator to return a value that becomes part of the objective by @jlowin in #267
• Update decorator to have proper method for returning a task by @jlowin in #268
• Improve handling of max turns / max turns per call and enforce task.max_turns by @jlowin in #271
• Update prefect pin for 3.0 🎉 by @jlowin in #273
• Allow configurable completion agents by @jlowin in #275
• Add top level run fns and support orchestrators with no agent by @jlowin in #280
• Improve debugging options by @jlowin in #281
• Reset task parent tracking when nested flows are created by @jlowin in #286
• @jlowin Remove infer_parent by improving attribute defaults by @jlowin in #287
• Update planning module by @jlowin in #285
• Huge orchestration overhaul by @jlowin in #290
• Add builtin validators and docs by @jlowin in #294
• Flow updates: prevent args from becoming part of context by @jlowin in #300
• Update prefect integration by @jlowin in #301

Fixes 🐞

• Fix bugs with parsing dependent tasks by @jlowin in #201
• Fix error when serializing bad tool args by @jlowin in #204
• fix kwarg by @zzstoatzz in #218
• fix tests by @jlowin in #227
• Add context tests; fix issue loading upstream task events by @jlowin in #229
• Ensure LC tools work by @jlowin in #230
• fix flow thread kwarg by @zzstoatzz in #250
• Add tests to ensure run limits are respected by @jlowin in #264
• Fix issue with classifying complex labels by @jlowin in #276
• Fix issue with special type aliases by @jlowin in #295

Breaking Changes 🛫

• move defaults out of root by @jlowin in #210
• Change run_once to steps by @jlowin in #214
• Remove .agents property by @jlowin in #242
• rename user_access → interactive by @jlowin in #259
• Remove error property and reuse result by @jlowin in #261
• Name is not required for agents; instructions can be provided as a positional arg by @jlowin in #270
• Remove unused settings by @jlowin in #272

Docs 📚

• Add event log docs by @jlowin in #208
• add groq to providers by @jlowin in #209
• Update installation.mdx by @jlowin in #215
• Add example of using a LangChain tool and fetching data, summarizing, and doing NER and sentiment analysis by @discdiver in #225
• Giant docs update by @jlowin in #277
• Icons update by @jlowin in #278
• New flow docs; clean up by @jlowin in #282
• Consolidate concept docs by @jlowin in #289
• Update dependency docs by @jlowin in #291
• Lots of new examples by @jlowin in #297
• Add history doc by @jlowin in #298
• Add feature examples by @jlowin in #299
• Add new agentic examples by @jlowin in #302
• Update readme by @jlowin in #303

Other Changes 🦾

• Update Prefect by @jlowin in #202
• Update README.md header image so displays in PyPI by @discdiver in #224
• Add history tests by @jlowin in #235
• Handle long tool descriptions by @jlowin in #237
• chore: update agent.py by @eltociear in #236
• Make agent name required by @jlowin in #238
• Remove unused events by @jlowin in #245
• Basetool support by @jlowin in #256
• v0.9 foundation by @jlowin in #255
• Fix flow context when using @flow by @jlowin in #257
• Update welcome.mdx by @jlowin in #258
• fix indentation by @jlowin in #260
• Remove max turns from task by @jlowin in #274
• Add dev CLI by @jlowin in #292
• 2 small things by @zzstoatzz in #293
• Update README.md by @jlowin in #304

New Contributors

• @eltociear made their first contribution in #236

Full Changelog: v0.8.2...v0.9