This example demonstrates how to use the requires_user_input parameter with async streaming responses. It shows how to collect specific user input fields in an asynchronous environment while maintaining real-time streaming.

Code

cookbook/agents/human_in_the_loop/user_input_required_stream_async.py
"""🤝 Human-in-the-Loop: Allowing users to provide input externally

This example shows how to use the `requires_user_input` parameter to allow users to provide input externally.
"""

import asyncio
from typing import List

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.sqlite import SqliteDb
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat
from agno.tools import tool
from agno.tools.function import UserInputField


# You can either specify the user_input_fields leave empty for all fields to be provided by the user
@tool(requires_user_input=True, user_input_fields=["to_address"])
def send_email(subject: str, body: str, to_address: str) -> str:
    """
    Send an email.

    Args:
        subject (str): The subject of the email.
        body (str): The body of the email.
        to_address (str): The address to send the email to.
    """
    return f"Sent email to {to_address} with subject {subject} and body {body}"


agent = Agent(
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-5-mini"),
    tools=[send_email],
    markdown=True,
    db=SqliteDb(session_table="test_session", db_file="tmp/example.db"),
)


async def main():
    async for run_event in agent.arun(
        "Send an email with the subject 'Hello' and the body 'Hello, world!'",
        stream=True,
    ):
        if run_event.is_paused:  # Or agent.run_response.is_paused
            for tool in run_event.tools_requiring_user_input:  # type: ignore
                input_schema: List[UserInputField] = tool.user_input_schema  # type: ignore

                for field in input_schema:
                    # Get user input for each field in the schema
                    field_type = field.field_type
                    field_description = field.description

                    # Display field information to the user
                    print(f"\nField: {field.name}")
                    print(f"Description: {field_description}")
                    print(f"Type: {field_type}")

                    # Get user input
                    if field.value is None:
                        user_value = input(f"Please enter a value for {field.name}: ")
                    else:
                        print(f"Value: {field.value}")
                        user_value = field.value

                    # Update the field value
                    field.value = user_value

            async for resp in agent.acontinue_run(  # type: ignore
                run_id=run_event.run_id,
                updated_tools=run_event.tools,
                stream=True,
            ):
                print(resp.content, end="")

    # Or for simple debug flow
    # agent.aprint_response("Send an email with the subject 'Hello' and the body 'Hello, world!'")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

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 openai
3

Run Agent

python cookbook/agents/human_in_the_loop/user_input_required_stream_async.py