Team Update Knowledge
Demonstrates enabling `update_knowledge` so teams can persist new facts.
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Team Update Knowledge
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Demonstrates enabling `update_knowledge` so teams can persist new facts.
"""
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.knowledge.knowledge import Knowledge
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses
from agno.team import Team
from agno.vectordb.lancedb import LanceDb
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Setup
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
team_knowledge = Knowledge(
vector_db=LanceDb(
table_name="team_update_knowledge",
uri="tmp/lancedb",
),
)
team_knowledge.insert(
text_content=(
"Agno teams can coordinate multiple specialist agents for operational tasks "
"and can use shared memory utilities to stay aligned."
)
)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Members
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ops_agent = Agent(
name="Operations Team Member",
model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5-mini"),
instructions=[
"Store reliable facts when users ask to remember them.",
"When asked, retrieve from knowledge first, then answer succinctly.",
],
)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Team
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
operations_team = Team(
name="Knowledge Ops Team",
model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5-mini"),
members=[ops_agent],
knowledge=team_knowledge,
update_knowledge=True,
add_knowledge_to_context=True,
instructions=[
"You maintain an operations playbook for the team.",
"Use knowledge tools to remember and recall short business facts.",
],
)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Team
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
operations_team.print_response(
"Remember: incident triage runs every weekday at 9:30 local time.",
stream=True,
)
operations_team.print_response(
"What does our playbook say about incident triage timing?",
stream=True,
)Example behavior
update_knowledge=True gives the team leader an add_to_knowledge tool. Saving the requested fact depends on the leader calling it; the member does not inherit the team’s knowledge tools. add_knowledge_to_context=True also retrieves context for the leader before its response. The local LanceDB table persists across invocations.
Run the Example
Set up your virtual environment
uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activateInstall dependencies
uv pip install -U agno lancedb openai pyarrowExport your OpenAI API key
export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"Run the example
Save the code above as team_update_knowledge.py, then run:
python team_update_knowledge.pyFull source: cookbook/03_teams/05_knowledge/05_team_update_knowledge.py