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Requirements: uv pip install agno opentelemetry-api opentelemetry-sdk openinference-instrumentation-agno 
"""
Traces with AgentOS
Requirements:
    uv pip install agno opentelemetry-api opentelemetry-sdk openinference-instrumentation-agno
"""

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.postgres import PostgresDb
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat
from agno.os import AgentOS
from agno.tools.hackernews import HackerNewsTools

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Example
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Set up database
db = PostgresDb(db_url="postgresql+psycopg://ai:ai@localhost:5532/ai")

agent = Agent(
    name="HackerNews Agent",
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-5.2"),
    tools=[HackerNewsTools()],
    instructions="You are a hacker news agent. Answer questions concisely.",
    markdown=True,
    db=db,
)

# Setup our AgentOS app
agent_os = AgentOS(
    description="Example app for tracing HackerNews",
    agents=[agent],
    tracing=True,
)
app = agent_os.get_app()

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Example
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

if __name__ == "__main__":
    agent_os.serve(app="basic_agent_with_postgresdb:app", reload=True)

​
Run the Example

# Clone and setup repo
git clone https://github.com/agno-agi/agno.git
cd agno/cookbook/05_agent_os/tracing/dbs

# Create and activate virtual environment
./scripts/demo_setup.sh
source .venvs/demo/bin/activate

python basic_agent_with_postgresdb.py