Building the Foundation

We spent the end of January focusing on building a solid foundation for our multiagent system by creating comprehensive helper functions for all sections of the project.

The process

Our main priority was to develop helper functions that would provide a good base for writing the agents. We continued working on modularizing the code, ensuring that each component would be reusable and maintainable as we transition to a multiagent architecture.

We created helper functions for all major sections including calendar operations, natural language processing utilities, meeting scheduling logic, and API communication. These functions are designed to be agent-agnostic, meaning they can be called by any agent we implement in the future.

Progress update

By the end of January, we had successfully built helper functions for:

• Calendar reading and parsing across multiple users
• Meeting availability detection and time slot finding
• API request formatting and response handling
• Natural language query parsing and intent recognition
• User preference management and storage

These helper functions follow our established code standards with proper type hinting, PEP8 formatting, and object-oriented design principles. This solid foundation will make it much easier to implement the individual agents in the coming weeks.

Next steps

With the helper functions in place, we are now ready to start building the actual agents. Our next focus will be on implementing the planner agent and testing with the OpenAI API keys we received from Cisco.