🚀 SmolAgents v1.19.0 is live! This release brings major improvements to agent flexibility, UI usability, streaming architecture, and developer experience: making it easier than ever to build smart, interactive AI agents. Here's what's new:
🔧 Agent Upgrades - Support for managed agents in ToolCallingAgent - Context manager support for cleaner agent lifecycle handling - Output formatting now uses XML tags for consistency
🖥️ UI Enhancements - GradioUI now supports reset_agent_memory: perfect for fresh starts in dev & demos.
🔄 Streaming Refactor - Streaming event aggregation moved off the Model class - ➡️ Better architecture & maintainability
📦 Output Tracking - CodeAgent outputs are now stored in ActionStep - ✅ More visibility and structure to agent decisions
🐛 Bug Fixes - Smarter planning logic - Cleaner Docker logs - Better prompt formatting for additional_args - Safer internal functions and final answer matching
📚 Docs Improvements - Added quickstart examples with tool usage - One-click Colab launch buttons - Expanded reference docs (AgentMemory, GradioUI docstrings) - Fixed broken links and migrated to .md format