This notebook covers how to get started with Robocorp Action Server action toolkit and LangChain. Robocorp is the easiest way to extend the capabilities of AI agents, assistants and copilots with custom actions.

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Installation

First, see the Robocorp Quickstart on how to setup Action Server and create your Actions. In your LangChain application, install the langchain-robocorp package: 
# Install package
%pip install --upgrade --quiet langchain-robocorp
When you create the new Action Server following the above quickstart. It will create a directory with files, including action.py. We can add python function as actions as shown here. Let’s add a dummy function to action.py. 
@action
def get_weather_forecast(city: str, days: int, scale: str = "celsius") -> str:
    """
    Returns weather conditions forecast for a given city.

    Args:
        city (str): Target city to get the weather conditions for
        days: How many day forecast to return
        scale (str): Temperature scale to use, should be one of "celsius" or "fahrenheit"

    Returns:
        str: The requested weather conditions forecast
    """
    return "75F and sunny :)"
We then start the server: 
action-server start
And we can see: 
Found new action: get_weather_forecast
Test locally by going to the server running at http://localhost:8080 and use the UI to run the function.

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Environment Setup

Optionally you can set the following environment variables:
  • LANGSMITH_TRACING=true: To enable LangSmith log run tracing that can also be bind to respective Action Server action run logs. See LangSmith documentation for more.

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Usage

We started the local action server, above, running on http://localhost:8080. 
from langchain.agents import AgentExecutor, OpenAIFunctionsAgent
from langchain_core.messages import SystemMessage
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
from langchain_robocorp import ActionServerToolkit

# Initialize LLM chat model
llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4", temperature=0)

# Initialize Action Server Toolkit
toolkit = ActionServerToolkit(url="http://localhost:8080", report_trace=True)
tools = toolkit.get_tools()

# Initialize Agent
system_message = SystemMessage(content="You are a helpful assistant")
prompt = OpenAIFunctionsAgent.create_prompt(system_message)
agent = OpenAIFunctionsAgent(llm=llm, prompt=prompt, tools=tools)

executor = AgentExecutor(agent=agent, tools=tools, verbose=True)

executor.invoke("What is the current weather today in San Francisco in fahrenheit?")

> Entering new AgentExecutor chain...

Invoking: `robocorp_action_server_get_weather_forecast` with `{'city': 'San Francisco', 'days': 1, 'scale': 'fahrenheit'}`


"75F and sunny :)"The current weather today in San Francisco is 75F and sunny.

> Finished chain.

{'input': 'What is the current weather today in San Francisco in fahrenheit?',
 'output': 'The current weather today in San Francisco is 75F and sunny.'}

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Single input tools

By default toolkit.get_tools() will return the actions as Structured Tools. To return single input tools, pass a Chat model to be used for processing the inputs. 
# Initialize single input Action Server Toolkit
toolkit = ActionServerToolkit(url="http://localhost:8080")
tools = toolkit.get_tools(llm=llm)