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Dragos Balota
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From Zero to Agent Hero: Building AI Agents with Agno + uv

Ready to build AI agents that don't just chat, but search the web, remember conversations, and dive into PDFs? Meet Agno - a lightweight Python library that's reportedly 10,000x faster than LangGraph !

What You'll Learn:

  • ⚡ Lightning Setup with uv (10-100x faster than pip)
  • 🤖 Basic Agent Creation with OpenAI integration
  • 🌐 Web Search Powers using DuckDuckGo tools
  • 🧠 Persistent Memory with SQLite storage
  • 📚 RAG Implementation with LanceDB vector database
  • 👥 Multi-Agent Teams that collaborate seamlessly

Quick Start:

Install Agno:

pip install agno
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Create First Agno Agent

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat

agent = Agent(
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-4o"),
    description="You're a cheerful AI pal!",
    markdown=True
)

agent.print_response("Hey! What's cooking today?", stream=True)
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Key Features:

  • 🔧 Zero Configuration - Works out of the box
  • 💾 Smart Memory - SQLite/PostgreSQL storage
  • 🔍 RAG Ready - PDF knowledge bases with vector search
  • 🌐 Web Integration - DuckDuckGo search capabilities
  • ⚡ Blazing Fast - Built for speed and efficiency
  • 🤝 Team Collaboration - Multi-agent coordination ## Real-World Example: Build a Thai cuisine expert that pulls recipes from PDFs and supplements with web research - all in under 50 lines of code!

Perfect for: Developers wanting to build production-ready AI agents without the complexity of heavyweight frameworks.

👉 🔗 Read the full guide: https://www.bitdoze.com/agno-get-start/

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