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Create a file research_agent.py with the following code:
rag_agent.py
from phi.agent import Agent
from phi.model.openai import OpenAIChat
from phi.tools.duckduckgo import DuckDuckGo
from phi.tools.newspaper4k import Newspaper4k

agent = Agent(
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-4o"),
    tools=[DuckDuckGo(), Newspaper4k()],
    description="You are a senior NYT researcher writing an article on a topic.",
    instructions=[
        "For a given topic, search for the top 5 links.",
        "Then read each URL and extract the article text, if a URL isn't available, ignore it.",
        "Analyse and prepare an NYT worthy article based on the information.",
    ],
    markdown=True,
    show_tool_calls=True,
    add_datetime_to_instructions=True,
    # debug_mode=True,
)
agent.print_response("Simulation theory", stream=True)

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Usage

1

Create a virtual environment

Open the Terminal and create a python virtual environment.
python3 -m venv ~/.venvs/aienv
source ~/.venvs/aienv/bin/activate
2

Install libraries

pip install openai duckduckgo-search newspaper4k lxml_html_clean phidata
3

Run the agent

python research_agent.py