Sleep Tools

Pause agent execution for a set number of seconds with SleepTools.

sleep_tools.py
"""
Sleep Tools
=============================

Demonstrates sleep tools.
"""

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.tools.sleep import SleepTools

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


# Example 1: Enable specific sleep functions
agent = Agent(tools=[SleepTools(enable_sleep=True)], name="Sleep Agent")

# Example 2: Enable all sleep functions
agent_all = Agent(tools=[SleepTools(all=True)], name="Full Sleep Agent")

# Test the agents

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    agent.print_response("Sleep for 2 seconds")
    agent_all.print_response("Sleep for 5 seconds")

Run the Example

Set up your virtual environment

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

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno openai

Export your OpenAI API key

export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"

Run the example

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

python sleep_tools.py

Full source: cookbook/91_tools/sleep_tools.py