Basic Instructions

This example demonstrates how to provide basic instructions to an agent to guide its response behavior and storytelling style.

Code

instructions.py

from agno.agent import Agent

agent = Agent(instructions="Share a 2 sentence story about")
agent.print_response("Love in the year 12000.")

Create a Python file

Create instructions.py with the code above.

Set up your virtual environment

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

uv venv --python 3.12
.venv\Scripts\activate

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno openai

Export your OpenAI API key

export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"

$Env:OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"

Run Agent

python instructions.py