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Extensible Agents
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Agents defined within PrimAITE have been updated to allow for easier creation of new bespoke agents.
Developing Agents for PrimAITE
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Agents within PrimAITE, follow the shown inheritance structure below.
# TODO: Turn this into an inheritance diagram
AbstractAgent
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| - AbstractScriptedAgent
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| | - AbstractTAPAgent
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| | | - DataManipulationAgent
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| |
| | - RandomAgent
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| | - PeriodicAgent
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| | - RandomAgent
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| - ProxyAgent
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| - ControlledAgent
#. **ConfigSchema**:
Configurable items within a new agent within PrimAITE should contain a ``ConfigSchema`` which holds all configurable variables of the agent. This should not include parameters related to its *state*.
Agent generation will fail if incorrect parameters are passed to the ConfigSchema, for the chosen Agent.
.. code-block:: python
class ExampleAgent(AbstractAgent, identifier = "example_agent"):
"""An example agent for demonstration purposes."""
config: "ExampleAgent.ConfigSchema"
"""Agent configuration"""
num_executions: int = 0
"""Number of action executions by agent"""
class ConfigSchema(AbstractAgent.ConfigSchema):
"""ExampleAgent configuration schema"""
agent_name: str
"""Name of agent"""
action_interval: int
"""Number of steps between agent actions"""
.. code-block:: YAML
- ref: example_green_agent
team: GREEN
type: ExampleAgent
observation_space: null
action_space:
action_list:
- type: do_nothing
action_map:
0:
action: do_nothing
options: {}
options:
nodes:
- node_name: client_1
max_folders_per_node: 1
max_files_per_folder: 1
max_services_per_node: 1
max_nics_per_node: 2
max_acl_rules: 10
reward_function:
reward_components:
- type: DUMMY
agent_settings:
start_settings:
start_step: 25
frequency: 20
variance: 5
#. **identifier**:
All agent classes should have a ``identifier`` attribute, a unique snake_case string, for when they are added to the base ``AbstractAgent`` registry. This is then specified in your configuration YAML, and used by PrimAITE to generate the correct Agent.
Changes to YAML file
====================
Agent configurations specified within YAML files used for earlier versions of PrimAITE will need updating to be compatible with PrimAITE v4.0.0+.
Agents now follow a more standardised settings definition, so should be more consistent across YAML.
# TODO: Show changes to YAML config needed here