[Feature Request]: Custom output for streaming

[tyler-suard-parker]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The current streaming output has lots of stuff that I do not want, for example

user_proxy (to assistant):

>>>>> USING AUTO_REPLY...

It would be nice to have a way to edit how the stream comes back. For example, adding an intro, like
Collecting information to answer your query...
And then only streaming back the last message from a particular agent.

Why this would be helpful: let's say I want one agent to do the searching and another agent to write the answer. I don't want the user to see all the data that gets returned by the search, I only want the user to see the written answer, streamed back from the writing agent.

Describe the solution you'd like

Just more flexible streaming in general. Right now it only allows streaming exactly what Autogen outputs, and it would be nice to have the ability to modify the format of what gets returned.

Additional context

No response

[WaelKarkoub]

If I'm not mistaken, all outputs follow this format, whether they're streamed or not. However, you raise a valid point, the messages you are seeing are hardcoded in the ConversableAgent class and not easy to change (if it's even possible at all).

Maybe you can restructure your code where you can silence some conversations that you don't need the output of. Take a look at the send method in ConversableAgent.