Autonolas AI Mechs

The execution of AI tasks, such as image generation using DALL-E, prompt processing with ChatGPT, or more intricate operations involving on-chain transactions, poses a number of challenges, including:

• Access to proprietary APIs, which may come with associated fees/subscriptions.
• Proficiency in the usage of the related open-source technologies, which may entail facing their inherent complexities.

AI Mechs run on the Gnosis chain, and enables you to post AI tasks requests on-chain and get their result delivered back to you efficiently. An AI Mech will execute these tasks for you. All you need is some xDAI in your wallet to reward the worker service executing your task. AI Mechs are hassle-free, crypto-native, and infinitely composable.

💡 These are just a few ideas on what capabilities can be brought on-chain with AI Mechs:

• fetch real-time web search results
• integrate multi-sig wallets,
• simulate chain transactions
• execute a variety of AI models:
  • generative (e.g, Stability AI, Midjourney),
  • action-based AI agents (e.g., AutoGPT, LangChain)

AI Mechs is a project born at ETHGlobal Lisbon.

AI Mechs components

The project consists of three components:

• Off-chain AI workers, each of which controls a Mech. Each AI worker is implemented as an autonomous service on the Autonolas stack.
• An on-chain protocol, which is used to generate a registry of AI Mechs, represented as NFTs on-chain.
• Mech Hub, a frontend which allows to interact with the protocol:
  • Gives an overview of the AI workers in the registry.
  • Allows Mech owners to create new workers.
  • Allows users to request work from an existing worker.

Mech request-response flow

1. Write request metadata: the application writes the request metadata to the IPFS. The request metadata must contain the attributes nonce, tool, and prompt. Additional attributes can be passed depending on the specific tool:

   {
   	"nonce": 15,
   	"tool": "prediction_request",
   	"prompt": "Will my favourite football team win this week's match?"
   }

2. The application gets the metadata's IPFS hash.

3. The application writes the request's IPFS hash to the Mech contract which includes a small payment (currently $0.01 on the Gnosis chain deployment). Alternatively, the payment could be done separately through a Nevermined subscription.

4. The Mech service is constantly monitoring Mech contract events, and therefore gets the request hash.

5. The Mech reads the request metadata from IPFS using its hash.

6. The Mech selects the appropriate tool to handle the request from the tool entry in the metadata, and runs the tool with the given arguments, usually a prompt. In this example, the mech has been requested to interact with OpenAI's API, so it forwards the prompt to it, but the tool can implement any other desired behavior.

7. The Mech gets a response from the tool.

8. The Mech writes the response to the IPFS.

9. The Mech receives the response the IPFS hash.

10. The Mech writes the response hash to the Mech contract.

11. The application monitors for contract Deliver events and reads the response hash from the associated transaction.

12. The application gets the response metadata from the IPFS:

    {
    	"requestId": 68039248068127180134548324138158983719531519331279563637951550269130775,
    	"result": "{\"p_yes\": 0.35, \"p_no\": 0.65, \"confidence\": 0.85, \"info_utility\": 0.75}"
    }

See some examples of requests and responses on the Mech Hub.

Requirements

This repository contains a demo AI Mech. You can clone and extend the codebase to create your own AI Mech. You need the following requirements installed in your system:

• Python (recommended 3.10)
• Poetry
• Docker Engine
• Docker Compose
• Tendermint ==0.34.19

Set up your environment

Follow these instructions to have your local environment prepared to run the demo below, as well as to build your own AI Mech.

1. Create a Poetry virtual environment and install the dependencies:

   poetry install && poetry shell

2. Fetch the software packages using the Open Autonomy CLI:

   autonomy packages sync --update-packages

   This will populate the Open Autonomy local registry (folder ./packages) with the required components to run the worker services.

Run the demo

Using Mech Quickstart (Preffered Method)

To help you integrate your own tools more easily, we’ve created a new base repository that serves as a minimal example of how to run the project. It’s designed to minimize setup time and provide a more intuitive starting point. This new repo is streamlined to give you a clean slate, making it easier than ever to get started.

Why Use the New Base Repo?

• Less Configuration: A clean setup that removes unnecessary complexities.
• Easier to Extend: Perfect for adding your own features and customizations.
• Clear Example: Start with a working example and build from there.

Feature Comparison

Feature	New Base Repo (Recommended)	Old Mech Repo (Not Preferred)
Setup Ease	Simplified minimal setup and quick to start	Requires extra configuration and more error prone
Flexibility & Customization	Easy to extend with your own features	Less streamlined for extensions
Future Support	Actively maintained & improved	No longer the focus for updates
Complexity	Low complexity, easy to use	More complex setup

We highly encourage you to start with this base repo for future projects. You can find it here.

Running the old base mech

Warning
The old repo is no longer the recommended approach for running and extending the project. Although it’s still remains available for legacy projects, we advise you to use the new base repo to ensure you are working with the most current and efficient setup. Access the new mech repo here. Start with the preferred method mentioned above.

Follow the instructions below to run the AI Mech demo executing the tool in ./packages/valory/customs/openai_request.py. Note that AI Mechs can be configured to work in two modes: polling mode, which periodically reads the chain, and websocket mode, which receives event updates from the chain. The default mode used by the demo is polling.

First, you need to configure the worker service. You need to create a .1env file which contains the service configuration parameters. We provide a prefilled template (.example.env). You will need to provide or create an OpenAI API key.

# Copy the prefilled template
cp .example.env .1env

# Edit ".1env" and replace "dummy_api_key" with your OpenAI API key.

# Source the env file
source .1env

Environment variables

You may customize the agent's behaviour by setting these environment variables.

Name	Type	Sample Value	Description
TOOLS_TO_PACKAGE_HASH	dict	{"openai-gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct":"bafybeigz5brshryms5awq5zscxsxibjymdofm55dw5o6ud7gtwmodm3vmq","openai-gpt-3.5-turbo":"bafybeigz5brshryms5awq5zscxsxibjymdofm55dw5o6ud7gtwmodm3vmq","openai-gpt-4":"bafybeigz5brshryms5awq5zscxsxibjymdofm55dw5o6ud7gtwmodm3vmq"}	Tracks services for each tool packages.
API_KEYS	dict	{"openai":["dummy_api_key"], "google_api_key":["dummy_api_key"]}	Tracks API keys for each service.
SERVICE_REGISTRY_ADDRESS	str	"0x9338b5153AE39BB89f50468E608eD9d764B755fD"	Smart contract which registers the services.
AGENT_REGISTRY_ADDRESS	str	"0xE49CB081e8d96920C38aA7AB90cb0294ab4Bc8EA"	Smart contract which registers the agents.
MECH_MARKETPLACE_ADDRESS	str	"0x4554fE75c1f5576c1d7F765B2A036c199Adae329"	Marketplace for posting and delivering requests served by agent mechs.
MECH_TO_SUBSCRIPTION	dict	{"0x77af31De935740567Cf4fF1986D04B2c964A786a":{"tokenAddress":"0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000","tokenId":"1"}}	Tracks mech's subscription details.
MECH_TO_CONFIG	dict	{"0xFf82123dFB52ab75C417195c5fDB87630145ae81":{"use_dynamic_pricing":false,"is_marketplace_mech":false}}	Tracks mech's config.

The rest of the common environment variables are present in the service.yaml, which are customizable too.

Warning
> The demo service is configured to match a specific on-chain agent (ID 3) on Mech Hub. Since you will not have access to its private key, your local instance will not be able to transact. However, it will be able to receive Requests for AI tasks sent from Mech Hub. These Requests will be executed by your local instance, but you will notice that a failure will occur when it tries to submit the transaction on-chain (Deliver type).

Now, you have two options to run the worker: as a standalone agent or as a service.

Option 1: Run the Mech as a standalone agent

1. Ensure you have a file with a private key (ethereum_private_key.txt). You can generate a new private key file using the Open Autonomy CLI:

   autonomy generate-key ethereum

2. From one terminal, run the agent:

   bash run_agent.sh

3. From another terminal, run the Tendermint node:

   bash run_tm.sh

Option 2: Run the Mech as an agent service

1. Ensure you have a file with the agent address and private key (keys.json). You can generate a new private key file using the Open Autonomy CLI:

   autonomy generate-key ethereum -n 4

2. Ensure that the variable ALL_PARTICIPANTS in the file .1env contains the agent addresses from keys.json:

   ALL_PARTICIPANTS='["your_agent_address_1", "your_agent_address_2", "your_agent_address_3", "your_agent_address_4"]'

3. Run, the service:

   bash run_service.sh

Integrating mechs into your application

For generic apps and scripts

Use the mech-client, which can be used either as a CLI or directly from a Python script.

For other autonomous services

To perform mech requests from your service, use the mech_interact_abci skill. This skill abstracts away all the IPFS and contract interactions so you only need to care about the following:

• Add the mech_interact_abci skill to your dependency list, both in packages.json, aea-config.yaml and any composed skill.yaml.

• Import MechInteractParams and MechResponseSpecs in your models.py file. You will also need to copy some dataclasses to your rounds.py.

• Add mech_requests and mech_responses to your skills' SynchonizedData class (see here)

• To send a request, prepare the request metadata, write it to synchronized_data.mech_requests and transition into mech_interact.

• You will need to appropriately chain the mech_interact_abci skill with your other skills (see here) and transaction_settlement_abci.

• After the interaction finishes, the responses will be inside synchronized_data.mech_responses

For a complete list of required changes, use this PR as reference.

Build your own

You can create and mint your own AI Mech that handles requests for tasks that you can define.

You can take a look at the preferred method mentioned above to get started quickly and easily.

Once your service works locally, you have the option to run it on a hosted service like Propel.

Included tools

🚧 Under Construction 🚧
We are working on adding a simple tool for the quickstart

More on tools

🚧 Under Construction 🚧

How key files look

A keyfile is just a file with your ethereum private key as a hex-string, example:

0x0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcd

Make sure you don't have any extra characters in the file, like newlines or spaces.

Examples of deployed Mechs

Network	Service	Mech Instance (Nevermined Pricing) - Agent Id	Mech Instance (Fixed Pricing) - Agent Id
Ethereum	https://registry.olas.network/ethereum/services/21	n/a	n/a
Gnosis	https://registry.olas.network/gnosis/services/3	0x327E26bDF1CfEa50BFAe35643B23D5268E41F7F9 - 3	0x77af31De935740567Cf4fF1986D04B2c964A786a - 6
Arbitrum	https://registry.olas.network/arbitrum-one/services/1	0x0eA6B3137f294657f0E854390bb2F607e315B82c - 1	0x1FDAD3a5af5E96e5a64Fc0662B1814458F114597 - 2
Polygon	https://registry.olas.network/polygon/services/3	0xCF1b5Db1Fa26F71028dA9d0DF01F74D4bbF5c188 - 1	0xbF92568718982bf65ee4af4F7020205dE2331a8a - 2
Base	https://registry.olas.network/base/services/1	0x37C484cc34408d0F827DB4d7B6e54b8837Bf8BDA - 1	0x111D7DB1B752AB4D2cC0286983D9bd73a49bac6c - 2
Celo	https://registry.olas.network/celo/services/1	0xeC20694b7BD7870d2dc415Af3b349360A6183245 - 1	0x230eD015735c0D01EA0AaD2786Ed6Bd3C6e75912 - 2
Optimism	https://registry.olas.network/optimism/services/1	0xbA4491C86705e8f335Ceaa8aaDb41361b2F82498 - 1	0xDd40E7D93c37eFD860Bd53Ab90b2b0a8D05cf71a - 2