AG2 Beta — capability map

AG2 beta (autogen.beta) is an async, protocol-driven agent framework. The full reference docs live under website/docs/beta/. This skill is the index of sibling skills that cover the common build paths.

When to use

Read this file first when a request mentions "AG2 beta", "autogen.beta", or building agents in this repo and you don't yet know which feature is needed. Use the table below to pick the right specialised skill, then load that skill's SKILL.md for the recipe.

Before you start

Anything you build with AG2 needs three things in place. Get these right once and the rest of the skills run cleanly:

1. Install the right provider extra — pip install "ag2[openai]", ag2[anthropic], ag2[gemini], etc. The *Config class will raise ImportError: ... requires optional dependencies without it. Run the install before delivering code. If you cannot run commands, state the exact pip install command. This is a required step.
2. Set the matching API key — OPENAI_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY (or GOOGLE_API_KEY). Loading from a project-root .env via from dotenv import load_dotenv; load_dotenv() is the common pattern.
3. Sanity-check the install — python -c "import sys, autogen; print(sys.executable, autogen.__version__)". If you have multiple Python environments, this confirms which ag2 your script will actually import.

Full per-provider table (install + env var + config class) lives in ag2-quickstart → "Prerequisites".

Pick the right skill