Knowledge Tools

Agent thinks, searches, and analyzes over Agno docs stored in a LanceDB knowledge base.

knowledge_tools.py
"""
Knowledge Tools
===============

Demonstrates this reasoning cookbook example.
"""

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.knowledge.embedder.openai import OpenAIEmbedder
from agno.knowledge.knowledge import Knowledge
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat
from agno.tools.knowledge import KnowledgeTools
from agno.vectordb.lancedb import LanceDb, SearchType


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Example
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def run_example() -> None:
    # Create a knowledge containing information from a URL
    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,
            embedder=OpenAIEmbedder(id="text-embedding-3-small"),
        ),
    )
    # Add content to the knowledge
    agno_docs.insert(url="https://docs.agno.com/llms-full.txt")

    knowledge_tools = KnowledgeTools(
        knowledge=agno_docs,
        enable_think=True,
        enable_search=True,
        enable_analyze=True,
        add_few_shot=True,
    )

    agent = Agent(
        model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-5.6-luna"),
        tools=[knowledge_tools],
        markdown=True,
    )

    if __name__ == "__main__":
        agent.print_response(
            "How do I build a team of agents in agno?",
            markdown=True,
            stream=True,
        )


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Example
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    run_example()

Run the Example

Set up your virtual environment

uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno beautifulsoup4 lancedb openai pyarrow

Export your OpenAI API key

export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"

Run the example

Save the code above as knowledge_tools.py, then run:

python knowledge_tools.py

Full source: cookbook/10_reasoning/tools/knowledge_tools.py