AgentGroupChat with AzureAssistantAgent agents and state management

[vslepakov]

Question: Reusing AzureAssistantAgent in AgentGroupChat

I have the following setup:

• An API that accepts user input
• It uses AgentGroupChat to orchestrate several AzureAssistantAgent instances
• Currently, I'm creating a new instance of AgentGroupChat on each request
• I attempt to reuse the AzureAssistantAgent instances by calling AzureAssistantAgent.retrieve with an agent_id (the agents are initially created on the first request)

Issue:
When I try to retrieve an existing agent by agent_id, I receive the error message: "No assistant found with id ..."

Questions:

• Is this error expected or by design?
• What is the correct approach for managing state and concurrency (multithreading) in AgentGroupChat when working with AzureAssistantAgent instances?