the_four_tools.py
"""
Entity Memory: The Four Tools
=============================
Entity memory is the agent's knowledge base about the world: the people,
projects, companies and systems around the user. The agent records through
four tools:
- remember_about: upsert an entity by name - facts, events, a description,
and a note pointer. Resolution is the store's job (ids are slugified,
"Sarah Chen" and "sarah chen" are one person).
- link_entities: record a relationship; the edge is stored on both entities.
- search_entities: find entities, or list them by recency (no query).
- forget: retire a fact, or archive a whole entity.
Corrections are just new facts: stating "radar shipped" retires "radar is
blocked on review" automatically (fact supersession), and facts render with
as-of dates so newer truth outranks older.
Run:
.venvs/demo/bin/python cookbook/08_learning/04_entity_memory/01_the_four_tools.py
"""
from uuid import uuid4
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.postgres import PostgresDb
from agno.learn import EntityMemoryConfig, LearningMachine
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
db = PostgresDb(db_url="postgresql+psycopg://ai:ai@localhost:5532/ai")
# Fresh per-run namespace so the demo starts clean on every execution.
# A real deployment pins one namespace - that persistence is the point.
NAMESPACE = f"four_tools_{uuid4().hex[:6]}"
agent = Agent(
model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.5"),
db=db,
instructions="You are a project tracker. Record what you are told, briefly.",
learning=LearningMachine(
entity_memory=EntityMemoryConfig(namespace=NAMESPACE),
),
markdown=True,
)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Demo
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
store = agent.learning_machine.entity_memory_store
print("=" * 60)
print("TURN 1: capture a project and a person")
print("=" * 60)
agent.print_response(
"Track the radar project: it is blocked on security review, and Sarah Chen is the designer.",
session_id="s1",
stream=True,
)
print("=" * 60)
print("TURN 2: a correction - supersession retires the stale fact")
print("=" * 60)
agent.print_response(
"Good news: radar shipped v1 to production today.",
session_id="s2",
stream=True,
)
print("\n--- radar, live facts only (the blocked fact is retired, not deleted) ---")
store.print(entity_id="radar", entity_type="project", namespace=NAMESPACE)
print("=" * 60)
print("TURN 3: recall in a fresh session - the entity directory plus")
print("relevance recall inject what this turn is about")
print("=" * 60)
agent.print_response(
"What do you know about radar?",
session_id="s3",
stream=True,
)
Run the Example
1
Set up your virtual environment
uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate
uv venv --python 3.12
.venv\Scripts\activate
2
Install dependencies
uv pip install -U agno "psycopg[binary]" openai sqlalchemy
3
Export your OpenAI API key
export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"
$Env:OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"
4
Run PgVector
docker run -d \
-e POSTGRES_DB=ai \
-e POSTGRES_USER=ai \
-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=ai \
-e PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql \
-v pgvolume:/var/lib/postgresql \
-p 5532:5432 \
--name pgvector \
agnohq/pgvector:18
docker run -d `
-e POSTGRES_DB=ai `
-e POSTGRES_USER=ai `
-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=ai `
-e PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql `
-v pgvolume:/var/lib/postgresql `
-p 5532:5432 `
--name pgvector `
agnohq/pgvector:18
5
Run the example
Save the code above as
the_four_tools.py, then run:python the_four_tools.py