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You can specify which tools to include or exclude from a Toolkit by using the include_tools and exclude_tools parameters. This can be very useful to limit the number of tools that are available to an Agent. For example, here’s how to include only the get_latest_emails tool in the GmailTools toolkit: 
agent = Agent(
    tools=[GmailTools(include_tools=["get_latest_emails"])],
)
Similarly, here’s how to exclude the create_draft_email tool from the GmailTools toolkit: 
agent = Agent(
    tools=[GmailTools(exclude_tools=["create_draft_email"])],
)

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Example

Here’s an example of how to use the include_tools and exclude_tools parameters to limit the number of tools that are available to an Agent:
include_exclude_tools.py

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat
from agno.tools.calculator import CalculatorTools
from agno.tools.duckduckgo import DuckDuckGoTools
from agno.tools.yfinance import YFinanceTools

agent = Agent(
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-5-mini"),
    tools=[
        CalculatorTools(
            exclude_tools=["exponentiate", "factorial", "is_prime", "square_root"],
        ),
        DuckDuckGoTools(include_tools=["duckduckgo_search"]),
    ],
    markdown=True,
)

agent.print_response(
    "Search the web for a difficult sum that can be done with normal arithmetic and solve it.",
)
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