User Profile: Custom Schema
Define your own profile structure with a dataclass.
"""
User Profile: Custom Schema
===========================
Define your own profile structure with a dataclass.
Use custom schemas when you want specific fields (e.g., role, department)
instead of the default free-form profile.
Compare with: 01_always_extraction.py for default schema.
See also: 01_basics/1a_user_profile_always.py for the basics.
"""
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from typing import Optional
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.postgres import PostgresDb
from agno.learn import LearningMachine, LearningMode, UserProfileConfig
from agno.learn.schemas import UserProfile
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Custom Profile Schema
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@dataclass
class DeveloperProfile(UserProfile):
"""Profile schema for developers. Each field has a description the LLM uses."""
company: Optional[str] = field(
default=None, metadata={"description": "Company or organization"}
)
role: Optional[str] = field(
default=None, metadata={"description": "Job title (e.g., Senior Engineer)"}
)
primary_language: Optional[str] = field(
default=None, metadata={"description": "Main programming language"}
)
languages: Optional[list[str]] = field(
default=None, metadata={"description": "All programming languages they know"}
)
frameworks: Optional[list[str]] = field(
default=None, metadata={"description": "Frameworks and libraries they use"}
)
experience_years: Optional[int] = field(
default=None, metadata={"description": "Years of programming experience"}
)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
db = PostgresDb(db_url="postgresql+psycopg://ai:ai@localhost:5532/ai")
agent = Agent(
model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.5"),
db=db,
learning=LearningMachine(
user_profile=UserProfileConfig(
mode=LearningMode.ALWAYS,
schema=DeveloperProfile,
),
),
markdown=True,
)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Demo
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
user_id = "alex@example.com"
# Share info that maps to schema fields
print("\n" + "=" * 60)
print("CONVERSATION 1: Introduction")
print("=" * 60 + "\n")
agent.print_response(
"Hi! I'm Alex Chen, a senior backend engineer at Stripe. "
"I've been coding for about 12 years now.",
user_id=user_id,
session_id="conv_1",
stream=True,
)
agent.learning_machine.user_profile_store.print(user_id=user_id)
# Add tech stack details
print("\n" + "=" * 60)
print("CONVERSATION 2: Tech stack")
print("=" * 60 + "\n")
agent.print_response(
"I mainly work with Go and Python. For Python, I use FastAPI "
"and SQLAlchemy a lot. I'm also familiar with Rust.",
user_id=user_id,
session_id="conv_2",
stream=True,
)
agent.learning_machine.user_profile_store.print(user_id=user_id)
# Test personalization
print("\n" + "=" * 60)
print("CONVERSATION 3: Personalized response")
print("=" * 60 + "\n")
agent.print_response(
"How should I structure a new microservice?",
user_id=user_id,
session_id="conv_3",
stream=True,
)The default profile is structured (name and preferred_name), not free-form. The current generated update tool exposes custom fields as optional strings and assigns them without runtime type validation. Dataclass annotations such as list[str] and int therefore do not guarantee the types of model-extracted values; normalize and validate values before application code consumes them.
Run the Example
Set up your virtual environment
uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activateInstall dependencies
uv pip install -U agno "psycopg[binary]" openai sqlalchemyExport your OpenAI API key
export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"Run PgVector
docker run -d \
-e POSTGRES_DB=ai \
-e POSTGRES_USER=ai \
-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=ai \
-e PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql \
-v pgvolume:/var/lib/postgresql \
-p 5532:5432 \
--name pgvector \
agnohq/pgvector:18Run the example
Save the code above as custom_schema.py, then run:
python custom_schema.pyFull source: cookbook/08_learning/02_user_profile/03_custom_schema.py