Agentic Memory

Let an agent create, update, and delete user memories during a run.

The local database setup below requires Docker.

Set enable_agentic_memory=True to give an agent the update_user_memory tool. Passing MemoryManager(delete_memories=True) lets the tool delete memories for the current user_id, in addition to adding and updating them.

Code

agentic_memory.py
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.postgres import PostgresDb
from agno.memory import MemoryManager
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses
from rich.pretty import pprint

db_url = "postgresql+psycopg://ai:ai@localhost:5532/ai"

db = PostgresDb(db_url=db_url)

john_doe_id = "john_doe@example.com"

agent = Agent(
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.2"),
    db=db,
    memory_manager=MemoryManager(delete_memories=True),
    enable_agentic_memory=True,
)

agent.print_response(
    "My name is John Doe and I like to hike in the mountains on weekends.",
    stream=True,
    user_id=john_doe_id,
)

agent.print_response("What are my hobbies?", stream=True, user_id=john_doe_id)

memories = agent.get_user_memories(user_id=john_doe_id)
print("Memories about John Doe:")
pprint(memories)


agent.print_response(
    "Remove all existing memories of me.",
    stream=True,
    user_id=john_doe_id,
)

memories = agent.get_user_memories(user_id=john_doe_id)
print("Memories about John Doe:")
pprint(memories)

agent.print_response(
    "My name is John Doe and I like to paint.", stream=True, user_id=john_doe_id
)

memories = agent.get_user_memories(user_id=john_doe_id)
print("Memories about John Doe:")
pprint(memories)


agent.print_response(
    "I don't paint anymore. I draw instead.", stream=True, user_id=john_doe_id
)

memories = agent.get_user_memories(user_id=john_doe_id)

print("Memories about John Doe:")
pprint(memories)

Usage

Set up your virtual environment

uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate

Set your API key

export OPENAI_API_KEY=xxx

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno openai sqlalchemy 'psycopg[binary]'

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

Run example

python agentic_memory.py