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"""
Session State Hooks
=============================

Example demonstrating how to use a pre_hook to update the session_state.
"""

from typing import List

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.sqlite import SqliteDb
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses
from agno.run import RunContext
from agno.run.agent import RunInput
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field


class ConversationTopics(BaseModel):
    topics: List[str] = Field(description="Topics present in the user messages")


# This will be our pre-hook function
def track_conversation_topics(run_context: RunContext, run_input: RunInput) -> None:
    """Simple pre-hook function to track conversation topics in the session state"""

    # Initialize the session state if it doesn't exist yet
    if run_context.session_state is None:
        run_context.session_state = {"topics": []}
    elif run_context.session_state.get("topics") is None:
        run_context.session_state["topics"] = []

    # Setup an Agent to get the topics discussed in the conversation
    # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Create Agent
    # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    topics_analyzer_agent = Agent(
        name="Topics Analyzer",
        model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5-mini"),
        instructions=[
            "Your task is to analyze a user query and extract the topics."
            "You will be presented with a user message sent to an agent."
            "You need to extract the topics present in the user message."
            "Be concise and brief. Topics should be one or two words, and only want the one or two main topics."
            "Respond just with the list of topics, no other text or explanation."
        ],
        output_schema=ConversationTopics,
    )

    # Run the Agent to get the topics discussed in the conversation
    response = topics_analyzer_agent.run(
        input=f"Extract the topics present in the following user message: {run_input.input_content}"
    )

    # Update the session state to track the topics discussed in the conversation
    run_context.session_state["topics"].extend(response.content.topics)  # type: ignore


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create a simple agent and equip it with our pre-hook
agent = Agent(
    name="Simple Agent",
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5-mini"),
    pre_hooks=[track_conversation_topics],
    db=SqliteDb(db_file="test.db"),
)

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    agent.print_response(
        input="I want to know more about AI Agents.",
        session_id="topics_analyzer_session",
    )
    print(
        f"Current session state, after the first run: {agent.get_session_state(session_id='topics_analyzer_session')}"
    )

    agent.print_response(
        input="I also want to know more about Agno, the framework to build AI Agents.",
        session_id="topics_analyzer_session",
    )
    print(
        f"Current session state, after the second run: {agent.get_session_state(session_id='topics_analyzer_session')}"
    )

Run the Example

# Clone and setup repo
git clone https://github.com/agno-agi/agno.git
cd agno/cookbook/02_agents/09_hooks

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

python session_state_hooks.py