The Complete Production SOP: How to Deploy and Run Microsoft AutoGen Conversational Agent Swarms in Autonomous AI Agents

---
name: "autogen-multiagent-conversational-swarm"
description: "Orchestrate collaborative multi-agent group chats with Microsoft AutoGen 0.4."
metadata:
  author: "Microsoft"
  version: "1.0.0"
  runtime_compatibility:
    - "codex"
    - "claude-code"
    - "cursor"
    - "windsurf"
triggers:
  - "create autogen groupchat"
  - "configure autogen assistantagent"
  - "setup autogen code execution"
permissions:
  fs_read: true
  fs_write: "workspace"
  shell_exec: false
  net_access: false
---

# Microsoft AutoGen Conversational Agent Swarms

Builds autonomous agent swarms with AutoGen: ConversableAgent, GroupChat, GroupChatManager, custom speaker selection strategies, and Docker code execution sandboxes.

import os
from autogen_ext.models.openai import OpenAIChatCompletionClient

def get_model_client():
    api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
    if not api_key:
        raise ValueError("OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable is missing")
    return OpenAIChatCompletionClient(model="gpt-4o", api_key=api_key)

import asyncio
from autogen_agentchat.agents import AssistantAgent
from autogen_agentchat.teams import RoundRobinGroupChat
from autogen_agentchat.conditions import TextMentionTermination
from swarm_config import get_model_client

async def main():
    model_client = get_model_client()
    
    # configure autogen assistantagent with domain roles
    planner = AssistantAgent("Planner", model_client=model_client, description="Plans execution roadmap.")
    coder = AssistantAgent("Engineer", model_client=model_client, description="Writes Python code.")
    
    termination = TextMentionTermination("TERMINATE")
    team = RoundRobinGroupChat([planner, coder], termination_condition=termination)
    
    async for message in team.run_stream(task="Draft an async web scraper. Output TERMINATE when done."):
        print(message)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

echo "Validating AutoGen syntax and dependencies..."
python -c "import autogen_agentchat; print(f'AutoGen AgentChat version: {autogen_agentchat.__version__}')"
python -m py_compile app.py swarm_config.py
echo "All syntax checks passed."