System Architecture

[rb125]

System Overview

The AI-powered software engineering assistant employs a multi-agent swarm model to provide a comprehensive development experience. At its core is a delegator agent that manages user interactions, project contexts, and delegates tasks to specialized agents.

Components

Web Application (Frontend)

Chat Interface: Primary user interaction point. Driven by a robust NLP engine for natural language communication.
Embedded IDE: Full-featured web IDE (Theia-based) for code development and project review.
Shell Emulator: Secure shell environment for development tasks and project setup.
Settings: Manages user preferences and access to LLM credentials.

Delegator Agent

Conversation Management: Interprets user intent, routes requests, and manages interruptions across multiple projects.
Project Contextualization: Tracks active projects, their stage, and associated data.
Task Delegation: Delegates tasks to the appropriate agents, manages dependencies, and tracks progress.
State Management: Maintains a robust system for storing and retrieving project states to handle context switching fluidly.

Specialized Agent Swarm

Requirements Engineering Agent: Excels in requirements elicitation, design suggestion, and generating architectural diagrams. May leverage specialized LLMs and knowledge bases.
Project Management Agent: Focuses on task breakdown, estimation, timelines, and potentially integrates with external PM tools.
Software Development Agent: Code-centric, responsible for code generation, stubbing, test cases, PRs, and leverages LLMs trained on code.
Release Engineering Agent: Handles environment setup, CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and build configurations.
QA/QC Agent: Generates test plans, understands different testing paradigms, and may suggest tools and extensive test suites.

Backend Server

Coordination Logic: Houses the delegator agent and potentially the specialized swarm, enabling communication and orchestration.
Secure Credential Storage: Encrypted system for storing and retrieving user LLM API keys.
Shared Knowledge Base (Optional): If appropriate, a centralized store of data, learnings, and code examples to improve the collective intelligence of the agents.

External Services

**GitHub: **Integration for repository creation, code management, and issue tracking.
User-Selected LLM Providers: System connects to external LLMs (GPT-3, etc.) via a flexible API abstraction layer.
CI Server: Executes test suites, build processes, and may connect with deployment pipelines.

System Strengths

Specialization: Agents become highly focused, increasing potential for high-quality outputs in their domains.
User-Focused: The delegator creates a seamless chat-based interface, simplifying the complexity for the user.
Adaptability: LLM choices reside with the user. New LLMs or specialized agents can be integrated over time.
Resilience: The swarm model allows for potential scaling and lessens the impact of single agent failures.

[Jiaxin-Pei]

I think a documentation management agent could also be helpful, which helps to:

• Create/update docs for newly developed features
• Retrieval relevant documentation when creating new features

[rb125]

Yea makes sense.

[Mystique-orca]

I think a documentation management agent could also be helpful, which helps to:

• Create/update docs for newly developed features
• Retrieval relevant documentation when creating new features

I think RTD will do the job for this one. I love it!

[rbren]

Given that this is such a high-level architectural proposal, I suggest we move the discussion to the roadmap PR. It'll be helpful to make specific suggestions there so that we're all aligned.