Add agent based AI tool recommendation#21661
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New agent that helps users find appropriate Galaxy tools for their tasks. Uses Galaxy's toolbox search to find installed tools and provides recommendations with confidence levels and reasoning. Features: - Searches Galaxy toolbox for matching tools - Fast path for exact tool name matches (bypasses LLM) - Structured output for models that support it - Text parsing fallback for DeepSeek and similar models - Tool existence verification before suggesting actions
The router now delegates tool discovery questions to the ToolRecommendationAgent, which searches the actual Galaxy toolbox to find installed tools rather than relying on the LLM's training data.
Added two new tools the LLM can call: - get_galaxy_tool_details(tool_id) - fetches inputs, outputs, version, requirements - get_galaxy_tool_categories() - lists available tool panel sections Also removed unused category parameter from search_tools().
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Thanks @dannon. Junhao and I discussed to improve the tool recommendations. Currently, I have been working to extract help text information for each tool, transforming these text into dense embeddings (using sentence transformers). Computing similarity of tools based on embedded help text can provide alternative tools / recommendations in addition to those procured from GTN tutorials. https://github.com/anuprulez/galaxy-tool-recommendation-agent-benchmark |
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@anuprulez Awesome, looking forward to it! |
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Add tool recommendation agent for Galaxy tool discovery
Adds a specialized agent that helps users find appropriate Galaxy tools for their bioinformatics tasks. The router now delegates tool discovery queries ("what tool should I use for X?") to this agent.
This is a fairly naive approach that we'd pulled out of the original branch, and I'm putting it back now to build on and improve. @qchiujunhao and @anuprulez have some focused work that can use this as a base to build on.
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(it'd be fine to get this into 26.0 if we want, or it can wait)