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+// Based on GPT Newspaper:
+// https://github.com/assafelovic/gpt-newspaper
+// https://gist.github.com/TheGreatBonnie/58dc21ebbeeb8cbb08df665db762738c
+
+import { TavilySearchAPIRetriever } from '@langchain/community/retrievers/tavily_search_api';
+import { ChatOpenAI } from '@langchain/openai';
+import { HumanMessage, SystemMessage } from '@langchain/core/messages';
+import { assign, createActor, fromPromise, setup } from 'xstate';
+
+interface AgentState {
+  topic: string;
+  searchResults?: string;
+  article?: string;
+  critique?: string;
+  revisionCount: number;
+}
+
+function model() {
+  return new ChatOpenAI({
+    temperature: 0,
+    modelName: 'gpt-4-1106-preview',
+    openAIApiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
+  });
+}
+
+async function search({ topic }: Pick<AgentState, 'topic'>): Promise<string> {
+  const retriever = new TavilySearchAPIRetriever({
+    k: 10,
+    apiKey: process.env.TAVILY_API_KEY,
+  });
+  // let topic = state.agentState.topic;
+  // must be at least 5 characters long
+  if (topic.length < 5) {
+    topic = 'topic: ' + topic;
+  }
+  const docs = await retriever.getRelevantDocuments(topic);
+  return JSON.stringify(docs);
+}
+
+async function curate(
+  input: Pick<AgentState, 'topic' | 'searchResults'>
+): Promise<string> {
+  const response = await model().invoke(
+    [
+      new SystemMessage(
+        `You are a personal newspaper editor. 
+         Your sole task is to return a list of URLs of the 5 most relevant articles for the provided topic or query as a JSON list of strings
+         in this format:
+         {
+          urls: ["url1", "url2", "url3", "url4", "url5"]
+         }
+         .`.replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
+      ),
+      new HumanMessage(
+        `Today's date is ${new Date().toLocaleDateString('en-GB')}.
+       Topic or Query: ${input.topic}
+       
+       Here is a list of articles:
+       ${input.searchResults}`.replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
+      ),
+    ],
+    {
+      response_format: {
+        type: 'json_object',
+      },
+    }
+  );
+  const urls = JSON.parse(response.content as string).urls;
+  const searchResults = JSON.parse(input.searchResults!);
+  const newSearchResults = searchResults.filter((result: any) => {
+    return urls.includes(result.metadata.source);
+  });
+  return JSON.stringify(newSearchResults);
+}
+
+async function critique(
+  input: Pick<AgentState, 'article' | 'critique'>
+): Promise<string | undefined> {
+  let feedbackInstructions = '';
+  if (input.critique) {
+    feedbackInstructions =
+      `The writer has revised the article based on your previous critique: ${input.critique}
+       The writer might have left feedback for you encoded between <FEEDBACK> tags.
+       The feedback is only for you to see and will be removed from the final article.
+    `.replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
+  }
+  const response = await model().invoke([
+    new SystemMessage(
+      `You are a personal newspaper writing critique. Your sole purpose is to provide short feedback on a written 
+      article so the writer will know what to fix.       
+      Today's date is ${new Date().toLocaleDateString('en-GB')}
+      Your task is to provide a really short feedback on the article only if necessary.
+      if you think the article is good, please return [DONE].
+      you can provide feedback on the revised article or just
+      return [DONE] if you think the article is good.
+      Please return a string of your critique or [DONE].`.replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
+    ),
+    new HumanMessage(
+      `${feedbackInstructions}
+       This is the article: ${input.article}`
+    ),
+  ]);
+  const content = response.content as string;
+  console.log('critique:', content);
+  return content.includes('[DONE]') ? undefined : content;
+}
+
+async function write(
+  input: Pick<AgentState, 'searchResults' | 'topic'>
+): Promise<string> {
+  const response = await model().invoke([
+    new SystemMessage(
+      `You are a personal newspaper writer. Your sole purpose is to write a well-written article about a 
+      topic using a list of articles. Write 5 paragraphs in markdown.`.replace(
+        /\s+/g,
+        ' '
+      )
+    ),
+    new HumanMessage(
+      `Today's date is ${new Date().toLocaleDateString('en-GB')}.
+      Your task is to write a critically acclaimed article for me about the provided query or 
+      topic based on the sources. 
+      Here is a list of articles: ${input.searchResults}
+      This is the topic: ${input.topic}
+      Please return a well-written article based on the provided information.`.replace(
+        /\s+/g,
+        ' '
+      )
+    ),
+  ]);
+  const content = response.content as string;
+  return content;
+}
+
+async function revise(
+  input: Pick<AgentState, 'article' | 'critique'>
+): Promise<string> {
+  const response = await model().invoke([
+    new SystemMessage(
+      `You are a personal newspaper editor. Your sole purpose is to edit a well-written article about a 
+      topic based on given critique.`.replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
+    ),
+    new HumanMessage(
+      `Your task is to edit the article based on the critique given.
+      This is the article: ${input.article}
+      This is the critique: ${input.critique}
+      Please return the edited article based on the critique given.
+      You may leave feedback about the critique encoded between <FEEDBACK> tags like this:
+      <FEEDBACK> here goes the feedback ...</FEEDBACK>`.replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
+    ),
+  ]);
+  const content = response.content as string;
+  return content;
+}
+
+const machine = setup({
+  types: {
+    context: {} as AgentState,
+  },
+  actors: {
+    search: fromPromise(({ input }: { input: Pick<AgentState, 'topic'> }) => {
+      return search(input);
+    }),
+    curate: fromPromise(
+      ({ input }: { input: Pick<AgentState, 'topic' | 'searchResults'> }) => {
+        return curate(input);
+      }
+    ),
+    critique: fromPromise(
+      ({ input }: { input: Pick<AgentState, 'article' | 'critique'> }) => {
+        return critique(input);
+      }
+    ),
+    write: fromPromise(
+      ({ input }: { input: Pick<AgentState, 'searchResults' | 'topic'> }) => {
+        return write(input);
+      }
+    ),
+    revise: fromPromise(
+      ({ input }: { input: Pick<AgentState, 'article' | 'critique'> }) => {
+        return revise(input);
+      }
+    ),
+  },
+}).createMachine({
+  context: {
+    topic: 'donuts',
+    revisionCount: 0,
+  },
+  initial: 'search',
+  states: {
+    search: {
+      invoke: {
+        src: 'search',
+        input: ({ context }) => ({
+          topic: context.topic,
+        }),
+        onDone: {
+          actions: assign({
+            searchResults: ({ event }) => event.output,
+          }),
+          target: 'curate',
+        },
+      },
+    },
+    curate: {
+      invoke: {
+        src: 'curate',
+        input: ({ context }) => ({
+          topic: context.topic,
+          searchResults: context.searchResults!,
+        }),
+        onDone: {
+          actions: assign({
+            searchResults: ({ event }) => event.output,
+          }),
+          target: 'write',
+        },
+      },
+    },
+    write: {
+      invoke: {
+        src: 'write',
+        input: ({ context }) => ({
+          topic: context.topic,
+          searchResults: context.searchResults!,
+        }),
+        onDone: {
+          actions: assign({
+            article: ({ event }) => event.output,
+          }),
+          target: 'critique',
+        },
+      },
+    },
+    critique: {
+      invoke: {
+        src: 'critique',
+        input: ({ context }) => ({
+          article: context.article!,
+          critique: context.critique,
+        }),
+        onDone: [
+          {
+            guard: ({ event }) => event.output === undefined,
+            target: 'done',
+          },
+          {
+            actions: assign({
+              article: ({ event }) => event.output,
+            }),
+            target: 'revise',
+          },
+        ],
+      },
+    },
+    revise: {
+      always: {
+        guard: ({ context }) => context.revisionCount > 3,
+        target: 'done',
+      },
+      entry: assign({
+        revisionCount: ({ context }) => context.revisionCount + 1,
+      }),
+      invoke: {
+        src: 'revise',
+        input: ({ context }) => ({
+          article: context.article!,
+          critique: context.critique,
+        }),
+        onDone: {
+          actions: assign({
+            article: ({ event }) => event.output,
+          }),
+          target: 'revise',
+          reenter: true,
+        },
+      },
+    },
+    done: {
+      type: 'final',
+    },
+  },
+  output: ({ context }) => context.article,
+});
+
+const actor = createActor(machine, {
+  // inspect: (inspEv) => {
+  //   if (inspEv.type === '@xstate.event') {
+  //     console.log(JSON.stringify(inspEv.event, null, 2));
+  //   }
+  // },
+});
+
+actor.subscribe({
+  next: (s) => {
+    console.log('State:', s.value);
+    console.log(
+      'Context:',
+      JSON.stringify(
+        s.context,
+        (k, v) => {
+          if (typeof v === 'string') {
+            // truncate if longer than 50 chars
+            return v.length > 50 ? `${v.slice(0, 50)}...` : v;
+          }
+          return v;
+        },
+        2
+      )
+    );
+  },
+  complete: () => {
+    console.log(actor.getSnapshot().output);
+  },
+  error: (err) => {
+    console.error(err);
+  },
+});
+
+actor.start();
+
+// keep the process alive by invoking a promise that never resolves
+new Promise(() => {});