Release v0.13.0 · askui/python-sdk

What's Changed

feat(excel): add support for Excel file processing in VisionAgent by @danyalxahid-askui in #121
feat: mcp tool support by @adi-wan-askui in #122
Fix/persistence in chat api by @adi-wan-askui in #123
feat/create thread and run endpoint by @adi-wan-askui in #124

Office Document Support: Excel and Word: Pass .xlsx, .xls, .docx, .doc files to <Agent>.get() as string (path) or pathlib.Path
MCP (Model Context Protocol) Tool Support:
- Pass fastmcp.Client to ToolCollection and ToolCollection to <Agent>.act() to use MCP tools
- Use MCP config endpoints of Chat API to configure MCP servers to be used by agents within chat (for now, no filtering of servers or tools, unavailable servers are ignored)
Chat:
- Start agent run / conversation with single create_thread_and_run endpoint to create a thread (conversation) and execute an agent to continue the thread (conversation)
- Add Files API for managing files referenced from within chat messages
- Scope resources to workspaces instead of sharing them across all workspaces (with exception of assistants/agents)

Chat
- Consistent encoding of files used for storage of resources (UTF-8)
- Resource ID generation and ordering of resources when listing them

Unified input source types: Replaced various type definitions (Img, Excel, Pdf) with standardized InputSource type
Improved documentation: Extracted documentation from README to dedicated /docs folder
Chat message storage optimization: Changed from single JSONL file to individual files for better scalability
Async/await: Switch to async/await under the hood and for creating a run for supporting async-first fastmcp framework and improving performance
New documentation: Added detailed guides for MCP, extracting data, chat API, and more

ActModel.act(): The tools parameter is now a ToolCollection instead of a list of Tool
Chat: You are going to loose all your chats when upgrading to this version as we changed how we store them

Full Changelog: v0.12.1...v0.13.0