Knowledge Tool Team
Give a team leader KnowledgeTools over a LanceDB knowledge base of a Paul Graham essay.
"""
Knowledge Tool Team
===================
Demonstrates this reasoning cookbook example.
"""
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.knowledge.knowledge import Knowledge
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat
from agno.team.team import Team
from agno.tools.knowledge import KnowledgeTools
from agno.tools.websearch import WebSearchTools
from agno.vectordb.lancedb import LanceDb, SearchType
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Example
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def run_example() -> None:
agno_docs = Knowledge(
# Use LanceDB as the vector database and store embeddings in the `agno_docs` table
vector_db=LanceDb(
uri="tmp/lancedb",
table_name="agno_docs",
search_type=SearchType.hybrid,
),
)
# Add content to the knowledge
agno_docs.insert(url="https://www.paulgraham.com/read.html")
knowledge_tools = KnowledgeTools(
knowledge=agno_docs,
enable_think=True,
enable_search=True,
enable_analyze=True,
add_few_shot=True,
)
web_agent = Agent(
name="Web Search Agent",
role="Handle web search requests",
model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-5.6-luna"),
tools=[WebSearchTools()],
instructions="Always include sources",
add_datetime_to_context=True,
)
finance_agent = Agent(
name="Finance Agent",
role="Handle financial data requests",
model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-5.6-luna"),
tools=[WebSearchTools(enable_news=False)],
add_datetime_to_context=True,
)
team_leader = Team(
name="Reasoning Finance Team",
model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-5.6-luna"),
members=[
web_agent,
finance_agent,
],
tools=[knowledge_tools],
instructions=[
"Only output the final answer, no other text.",
"Use tables to display data",
],
markdown=True,
show_members_responses=True,
add_datetime_to_context=True,
)
def run_team(task: str):
team_leader.print_response(
task,
stream=True,
show_full_reasoning=True,
)
if __name__ == "__main__":
run_team("What does Paul Graham talk about the need to read in this essay?")
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Example
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
run_example()Run the Example
Set up your virtual environment
uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activateInstall dependencies
uv pip install -U agno beautifulsoup4 ddgs lancedb openai pyarrowExport your OpenAI API key
export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"Run the example
Save the code above as knowledge_tool_team.py, then run:
python knowledge_tool_team.pyFull source: cookbook/10_reasoning/teams/knowledge_tool_team.py