Agentic State

Enable agentic session state so teams and agents manage and update their own session state during interactions. The agents modify the state autonomously based on the conversation context.

Create a Python file

agentic_session_state.py

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.sqlite import SqliteDb
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses
from agno.team import Team

db = SqliteDb(db_file="tmp/agents.db")

shopping_agent = Agent(
    name="Shopping List Agent",
    role="Manage the shopping list",
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.2"),
    db=db,
    add_session_state_to_context=True,  # Required so the agent is aware of the session state
    enable_agentic_state=True,
)

team = Team(
    members=[shopping_agent],
    session_state={"shopping_list": []},
    db=db,
    add_session_state_to_context=True,  # Required so the team is aware of the session state
    enable_agentic_state=True,
    description="You are a team that manages a shopping list and chores",
    show_members_responses=True,
)

team.print_response("Add milk, eggs, and bread to the shopping list")

team.print_response("I picked up the eggs, now what's on my list?")

print(f"Session state: {team.get_session_state()}")

Set up your virtual environment

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

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno openai sqlalchemy

Export your OpenAI API key

Set OpenAI Key

Set your OPENAI_API_KEY as an environment variable. You can get one from OpenAI.

export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-***

Run Team

python agentic_session_state.py