Introduction - Phidata

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What is Phidata?

Phidata is a framework for building multi-modal agents and workflows.

Build agents with memory, knowledge, tools and reasoning.
Build teams of agents that can work together to solve problems.
Interact with your agents and workflows using a beautiful Agent UI.

Key Features

Install

pip install -U phidata

Simple & Elegant

Phidata Agents are simple and elegant, resulting in minimal, beautiful code. For example, you can create a web search agent in 10 lines of code.

web_search.py

from phi.agent import Agent
from phi.model.openai import OpenAIChat
from phi.tools.duckduckgo import DuckDuckGo

web_agent = Agent(
    name="Web Agent",
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-4o"),
    tools=[DuckDuckGo()],
    instructions=["Always include sources"],
    show_tool_calls=True,
    markdown=True,
)
web_agent.print_response("Tell me about OpenAI Sora?", stream=True)

Setup

Setup your virtual environment

python3 -m venv ~/.venvs/aienv
source ~/.venvs/aienv/bin/activate

python3 -m venv aienv
aienv/scripts/activate

Install libraries

pip install -U phidata openai duckduckgo-search

pip install -U phidata openai duckduckgo-search

Export your OpenAI key

Phidata works with most model providers but for these examples let’s use OpenAI.

export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-***

setx OPENAI_API_KEY sk-***

You can get an API key from here.

Run the agent

python web_search.py

Powerful & Flexible

Phidata agents can use multiple tools and follow instructions to achieve complex tasks. For example, you can create a finance agent with tools to query financial data.

Create a finance agent

finance_agent.py

from phi.agent import Agent
from phi.model.openai import OpenAIChat

finance_agent = Agent(
    name="Finance Agent",
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-4o"),
    instructions=["Use tables to display data"],
    show_tool_calls=True,
    markdown=True,
)
finance_agent.print_response("Summarize analyst recommendations for NVDA", stream=True)

Run the agent

Install libraries

pip install openai

Run the agent

python finance_agent.py

Phidata agents support text, images, audio and video. For example, you can create an image agent that can understand images and make tool calls as needed

Create an image agent

image_agent.py

from phi.agent import Agent
from phi.model.openai import OpenAIChat
from phi.tools.duckduckgo import DuckDuckGo

agent = Agent(
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-4o"),
    tools=[DuckDuckGo()],
    markdown=True,
)

agent.print_response(
    "Tell me about this image and give me the latest news about it.",
    images=["https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Krakow_-_Kosciol_Mariacki.jpg"],
    stream=True,
)

Run the agent

python image_agent.py

Multi-Agent orchestration

Phidata agents can work together as a team to achieve complex tasks.

Create an agent team

agent_team.py

from phi.agent import Agent
from phi.model.openai import OpenAIChat
from phi.tools.duckduckgo import DuckDuckGo

web_agent = Agent(
    name="Web Agent",
    role="Search the web for information",
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-4o"),
    tools=[DuckDuckGo()],
    instructions=["Always include sources"],
    show_tool_calls=True,
    markdown=True,
)

finance_agent = Agent(
    name="Finance Agent",
    role="Get financial data",
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-4o"),
    instructions=["Use tables to display data"],
    show_tool_calls=True,
    markdown=True,
)

agent_team = Agent(
    team=[web_agent, finance_agent],
    instructions=["Always include sources", "Use tables to display data"],
    show_tool_calls=True,
    markdown=True,
)

agent_team.print_response("Summarize analyst recommendations and share the latest news for NVDA", stream=True)

Run the agent team

python agent_team.py

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​What is Phidata?

​Key Features

​Install

​Simple & Elegant

​Setup

​Powerful & Flexible

​Multi-Modal by default

​Multi-Agent orchestration

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What is Phidata?

Key Features

Install

Simple & Elegant

Setup

Powerful & Flexible

Multi-Modal by default

Multi-Agent orchestration

Continue reading