Way to interrupt AutoGPT so it stops at the next action cycle and waits for user input 🚀

[GoMightyAlgorythmGo]

I know you can press ctrl+c but that stops the program completely you have to restart and usually it seems to lose a lot of it's progress and cant relly continue where it left off. (Edit: But somethimes it seems to relly continue quickly, i think a few more memory upgrades or combining all 4 memory systems and we can get there.) A stop where it would stay runing but go to the user input would be nice (where you can press "y" "y -n" "n" and suggestions etc.

<3 Tho not urgent at all. <3

[TheAIAdopter]

would like something like this as well

[lfricken]

I wrote a solution, but all the python keyboard solutions have problems so I won't bother submitting a PR until it's agreed how this should even work

• keyboard module requires root on linux
• pynput ignores focus, and focus checks are platform specific

As much as I would like to see Auto-GPT running on continuous mode with root privileges, I suspect most users wouldn't.

[jarnowu]

This would be very useful especially when crawling web pages since AutoGPT seems to freeze if errors occur (e.g. ERROR:gpu_init.cc(525)] Passthrough is not supported, GL is disabled)

[alvinycheung]

bump on this, feels like a great idea!

[adrianegraphene]

Thanks for that link @lfricken, I'm running into this issue now and agree that root access is not desired. However, it looks like Windows has solutions that do not require root. I've come up with something that works for Windows, but has a small bug

Will be submitting as PR shortly

[adrianegraphene]

got it to work on Windows and figured out that bug. Anyone here on a Mac or Linux and willing to test this branch?
#2069

[GoMightyAlgorythmGo]

I cant highlight this but i would. Awesome! gj if it works i go like :*

[adrianegraphene]

It definitely works for Windows! Feels super nice to because to "pause" and give input. I see it's awaiting PR from someone with write access (I don't have that kind of access), so hopefully it passes review. Otherwise, I'll be happy to adapt changes as needed.

[Pwuts]

Currently two open PRs implementing this, #2069 and #2291

[Rumpa112]

ive been thinking the same thing, this is a very useful option to have because let's face it 9/10 times autpgpt loses focus and starts todo all kinds of random shit

[adrianegraphene]

Heh. Well, I've got it written up in this PR #2069 , but I think it needs a maintainer to approve the merge?
I keep getting confused on the message about "sponsors" that seems to pause the automated merge attempts. I'll see if I can take care of the "sponsors" error message & hopefully get this merged...

[adrianegraphene]

Had to close PR #2069 and open a new PR here #3083 - so we'll see how that goes.

[javableu]

I think we should be proposed a set of solutions/plan/task, and we would decide which one is the most relevant

[adrianegraphene]

I'm up for that.
A comment from another PR mentioned they did not like the button mashing that has to be done here.

Shift + P + P is a bit much, but it just "works". It has a few quirks. After you're hit the "Shift + P + P" and entered the paused feedback line..

1: you have to delete the "P" characters once you're on the paused feedback line
2: Entering "Shift + P" during a conversation on the paused feedback line triggers the notification (but doesn't actually insert text into your feedback).

I figured those are small enough fixes that we can fix them later.

If there's any other benign key combos, I'd love to hear it.

[Pwuts]

Hi @adrianegraphene, we're well aware of your (previous) PR. With #2291 it also has a competitor though.

We'll get to reviewing and picking one after the release that should come out today or tomorrow.

[adrianegraphene]

Yes, I saw that one too. Whatever makes it easiest for people to use! Thanks for the update. Let know if I can be helpful in anyway here.

[wahengchang]

so , how is this feature ?

Way to interrupt AutoGPT so it stops at the next action cycle and waits for user input

[adrianegraphene]

There's PRs with working implementations, but as per a message a couple days ago, the core team's focused on other things at the moment.

[Boostrix]

There's been a ton of related talks recently. For instance, see:

• Pause continuous loops and give feedback #3083
• Allow asking human assistance/feedback incontinuous mode #150
• A way to stop executing of "y -100" without killing the program #1472
• Proposal for a new command to prompt the user/ ask the user questions. #1548

[Pwuts]

This has been implemented in #4230. Another mechanism for this is on our todo list:

• Allow asking human assistance/feedback incontinuous mode #150