Use SQLite as the database for an agent

Persist agent sessions in SQLite with AsyncSqliteDb and async run methods.

async_sqlite_for_agent.py
"""Use SQLite as the database for an agent.

Run `uv pip install openai ddgs sqlalchemy aiosqlite` to install dependencies."""

import asyncio

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.sqlite import AsyncSqliteDb
from agno.tools.websearch import WebSearchTools

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Setup
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
db = AsyncSqliteDb(db_file="tmp/data.db")

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
agent = Agent(
    db=db,
    tools=[WebSearchTools()],
    add_history_to_context=True,
    add_datetime_to_context=True,
)


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
async def main():
    await agent.aprint_response("How many people live in Canada?")
    await agent.aprint_response("What is their national anthem called?")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Run the Example

Set up your virtual environment

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

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno aiosqlite ddgs openai "sqlalchemy[asyncio]"

Export your OpenAI API key

export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"

Run the example

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

python async_sqlite_for_agent.py

Full source: cookbook/06_storage/sqlite/async_sqlite/async_sqlite_for_agent.py