Aea

- Updates component package module loading for skill and connection
- Unifies component package loading across package types
- Adds connections registry to resources
- Upgrades CLI commands for easier programmatic usage
- Adds `AEARunner` and `AEALauncher` for programmatic launch of multiple agents
- Refactors `AEABuilder` to support reentrancy and resetting
- Fixes tac packages to work with ERC1155 contract
- Multiple refactoring to improve public and private access patterns
- Multiple docs updates
- Multiple test stability fixes

- Updates message handling in skills
- Replaces serialiser implementation; all serialization is now performed framework side
- Updates all skills for compatibility with new message handling
- Updates all protocols and protocol generator
- Updates package loading mechanism
- Adds `p2p_libp2p_client` connection
- Fixes CLI bugs and refactors CLI
- Adds eject command to CLI
- Exposes identity and connection cryptos to all connections
- Updates connection loading mechanism
- Updates all connections for compatibility with new loading mechanism
- Extracts multiplexer into its own module
- Implements list all CLI command
- Updates wallet to split into several crypto stores
- Refactors component registry and resources
- Extends soef connection functionality
- Implements `AEABuilder` reentrancy
- Updates `p2p_libp2p` connection
- Adds support for configurable runtime
- Refactors documentation
- Multiple docs updates
- Multiple test stability fixes

- Adds option to pass ledger APIs to `AEABuilder`
- Refactors decision maker: separates interface and implementation; adds loading mechanisms so framework users can provide their own implementation
- Adds asynchronous and synchronous agent loop implementations; agent can be run in both `sync` and `async` mode
- Completes transition to atomic CLI commands (fetch, generate, scaffold)
- Refactors dialogue API: adds much simplified API; updates generator accordingly; updates skills
- Adds support for crypto module extensions: framework users can register their own crypto module
- Adds crypto module and ledger support for cosmos
- Adds simple-oef (soef) connection
- Adds `p2p_libp2p` connection for true P2P connectivity
- Adds PyPI dependency consistency checks for AEA projects
- Refactors CLI for improved programmatic usage of components
- Adds skill exception handling policies and configuration options
- Adds comprehensive documentation of configuration files
- Multiple docs updates
- Multiple test stability fixes

- Adds dialogue generation functionality to protocol generator
- Fixes add CLI commands to be atomic
- Adds Windows platform support
- Stability improvements to test pipeline
- Improves test coverage of CLI
- Implements missing doc tests
- Implements end-to-end tests for all skills
- Adds missing agent projects to registry
- Improves `AEABuilder` class for programmatic usage
- Exposes missing AEA configurations on agent configuration file
- Extends Aries demo
- Adds method to check stdout for test cases
- Adds code of conduct and security guidelines to repo
- Multiple docs updates
- Multiple additional unit tests
- Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

- Adds `p2p_stub` connection
- Adds `p2p_noise` connection
- Adds webhook connection
- Upgrades error handling for error skill
- Fixes default timeout on main agent loop and provides setter in `AEABuilder`
- Adds multithreading support for launch command
- Provides support for keyword arguments to AEA constructor to be set on skill context
- Renames `ConfigurationType` with `PackageType` for consistency
- Provides a new `AEATestCase` class for improved testing
- Adds execution time limits for act/react calls
- TAC skills refactoring and contract integration
- Supports contract dependencies being added automatically
- Adds HTTP example skill
- Allows for skill inactivation during initialisation
- Improves error messages on skill loading errors
- Improves `README.md` files, particularly for PyPI
- Adds support for Location based queries and descriptions
- Refactors skills tests to use `AEATestCase`
- Adds fingerprint and scaffold CLI command for contract
- Adds multiple additional docs tests
- Makes task manager initialize pool lazily
- Multiple docs updates
- Multiple additional unit tests
- Multiple additional minor fixes and changes

- Introduces IPFS based hashing of files to detect changes, ensure consistency and allow for content addressing
- Introduces `aea fingerprint` command to CLI
- Adds support for contract type packages which wrap smart contracts and their APIs
- Introduces `AEABuilder` class for much improved programmatic usage of the framework
- Moves protocol generator into alpha stage for light protocols
- Switches CLI to use remote registry by default
- Comprehensive documentation updates on new and existing features
- Additional demos to introduce the contracts functionality
- Protocol, Contract, Skill and Connection inherits from the same class, Component
- Improved APIs for Configuration classes
- All protocols now generated with protocol generator
- Multiple additional unit tests
- Multiple additional minor fixes and changes