New Features ✨

• Multiple Parallel Tool Calls: ToolCallingAgent can now handle multiple tool calls in parallel, significantly enhancing performance for complex tasks.
  • Support multiple tool calls in parallel in ToolCallingAgent by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1412
• Streaming Output for ToolCallingAgent: ToolCallingAgent now supports streaming outputs, improving responsiveness and user experience during multi-step tool interactions
  • Streaming outputs for ToolCallingAgent 🚀 by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1409
• API Web Search Tool: Introduced a new ApiWebSearchTool, enabling structured web search capabilities via API.
  • Create API web search tool by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1400

Enhancements 🛠️

• Update prompts to avoid confusion: search -> web_search and wiki -> wiki_search by @SrzStephen in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1403
• Make Agent.system_prompt read only by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1399
• Support configurable tool_choice in prepare_completion_kwargs by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1392
• Support passing additional params to MLXModel load and tokenizer.apply_chat_template by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1406
• Support custom headers/params for ApiWebSearchTool by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1411

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Fix: Support custom inputs execution for custom Final Answer Tool by @Lrakotoson in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1383
• Fix @tool decorator for remote Python executor by @tobiasofsn in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1334
• Always pass add_generation_prompt=True to apply_chat_template by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1416

Documentation Improvements 📚

• Make docs neutral about agent types by @julien-c in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1376
• Add MCP tools doc section by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1394
• Update ToolCollection.from_mcp docstring examples by @neonwatty in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1398
• Document better final_answer_checks by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1407
• Fix typo in secure code execution documentation by @chahn in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1414
• Add chat server demo to examples by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1415
• Fix VLM model in web_browser example docs by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1424
• Fix ValueError on Guided Tour docs by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1425
• Explain agent types better in Guided tour docs by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1426
• Add Quickstart page to docs by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1413

Maintenance 🏗️

• Bump dev version: v1.18.0.dev0 by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1390

New Contributors

• @Lrakotoson made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1383
• @neonwatty made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1398
• @SrzStephen made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1403
• @chahn made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1414

Full Changelog: https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/compare/v1.17.0...v1.18.0