This example demonstrates how to provide instructions to an agent via a function that can access the agent’s properties, enabling dynamic and personalized instruction generation.

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Code

cookbook/agents/context_management/instructions_via_function.py
from typing import List

from agno.agent import Agent


def get_instructions(agent: Agent) -> List[str]:
    return [
        f"Your name is {agent.name}!",
        "Talk in haiku's!",
        "Use poetry to answer questions.",
    ]


agent = Agent(
    name="AgentX",
    instructions=get_instructions,
    markdown=True,
)
agent.print_response("Who are you?", stream=True)

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Usage

1

Create a virtual environment

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

Install libraries

pip install -U agno
3

Run Agent

python cookbook/agents/context_management/instructions_via_function.py