> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.agno.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Team Update Knowledge

> Demonstrates enabling `update_knowledge` so teams can persist new facts.

```python team_update_knowledge.py theme={null}
"""
Team Update Knowledge
====================

Demonstrates enabling `update_knowledge` so teams can persist new facts.
"""

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.knowledge.knowledge import Knowledge
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses
from agno.team import Team
from agno.vectordb.lancedb import LanceDb

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Setup
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
team_knowledge = Knowledge(
    vector_db=LanceDb(
        table_name="team_update_knowledge",
        uri="tmp/lancedb",
    ),
)
team_knowledge.insert(
    text_content=(
        "Agno teams can coordinate multiple specialist agents for operational tasks "
        "and can use shared memory utilities to stay aligned."
    )
)


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Members
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ops_agent = Agent(
    name="Operations Team Member",
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5-mini"),
    instructions=[
        "Store reliable facts when users ask to remember them.",
        "When asked, retrieve from knowledge first, then answer succinctly.",
    ],
)


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Team
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
operations_team = Team(
    name="Knowledge Ops Team",
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5-mini"),
    members=[ops_agent],
    knowledge=team_knowledge,
    update_knowledge=True,
    add_knowledge_to_context=True,
    instructions=[
        "You maintain an operations playbook for the team.",
        "Use knowledge tools to remember and recall short business facts.",
    ],
)


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Team
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    operations_team.print_response(
        "Remember: incident triage runs every weekday at 9:30 local time.",
        stream=True,
    )

    operations_team.print_response(
        "What does our playbook say about incident triage timing?",
        stream=True,
    )
```

## Run the Example

<Steps>
  <Snippet file="create-venv-step.mdx" />

  <Step title="Install dependencies">
    ```bash theme={null}
    uv pip install -U agno lancedb openai pyarrow
    ```
  </Step>

  <Step title="Export your API keys">
    <CodeGroup>
      ```bash Mac/Linux theme={null}
      export LANCEDB_API_KEY="your_lancedb_api_key_here"
      export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"
      ```

      ```bash Windows theme={null}
      $Env:LANCEDB_API_KEY="your_lancedb_api_key_here"
      $Env:OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"
      ```
    </CodeGroup>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Run the example">
    Save the code above as `team_update_knowledge.py`, then run:

    ```bash theme={null}
    python team_update_knowledge.py
    ```
  </Step>
</Steps>

Full source: [cookbook/03\_teams/05\_knowledge/05\_team\_update\_knowledge.py](https://github.com/agno-agi/agno/blob/main/cookbook/03_teams/05_knowledge/05_team_update_knowledge.py)