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ModelScope-Agent

Provide a lightweight, extensible Chinese-ecosystem agent framework with RolePlay agents, tool calling, hybrid RAG, and MCP-mediated multi-agent workflows.

Description

ModelScope-Agent (now also branded MS-Agent) is Alibaba ModelScope's open-source agent framework. It started in August 2023 as a RolePlay-style agent with tool calling and a published preprint (arXiv:2309.00986), and has since added an AgentFabric UI for creating agents tailored to applications, hybrid search combining FAISS dense retrieval with BM25, MCP-based tool calling, and code-generation artifacts. The framework integrates Qwen and other ModelScope-hosted models and ships RAG over LlamaIndex.

Solution

RolePlay-style tool-calling agent. Agents are configured with a role, tools, and an LLM (typically Qwen or OpenAI-SDK-compatible). The loop is the standard reason-tool-observe pattern with MCP servers and local tools as the action space; a multi-agent path orchestrates specialised agents for task decomposition.

Primary use cases

  • Chinese-ecosystem tool-using agents over Qwen and ModelScope APIs
  • agent chat with MCP-mediated external tools
  • hybrid (BM25 + dense) RAG over local code and docs
  • user-built agents via the AgentFabric UI

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