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Zep tools serves as the Agno agent’s “Long-Term Memory and Knowledge Graph Engine.” While standard memory tools store raw chat history, Zep goes further by continuously learning from user interactions, extracting facts, and organizing them into a temporal knowledge graph. This allows Agno agents to remember nuances from conversations that happened weeks or months ago without bloating the prompt with old text.

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Prerequisites

  • Get your Zep API key from https://app.getzep.com/
  • Set Zep API key as an environment variable: export ZEP_API_KEY=<your-zep-api-key>.

import asyncio
import time

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat
from agno.tools.zep import ZepAsyncTools, ZepTools

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


def run_sync() -> None:
    # Initialize the ZepTools
    sync_zep_tools = ZepTools(
        user_id="agno", session_id="agno-session", add_instructions=True
    )

    # Initialize the Agent
    sync_agent = Agent(
        model=OpenAIChat(),
        tools=[sync_zep_tools],
        dependencies={"memory": sync_zep_tools.get_zep_memory(memory_type="context")},
        add_dependencies_to_context=True,
    )

    # Interact with the Agent so that it can learn about the user
    sync_agent.print_response("My name is John Billings")
    sync_agent.print_response("I live in NYC")
    sync_agent.print_response("I'm going to a concert tomorrow")

    # Allow the memories to sync with Zep database
    time.sleep(10)

    if sync_agent.dependencies:
        # Refresh the context
        sync_agent.dependencies["memory"] = sync_zep_tools.get_zep_memory(
            memory_type="context"
        )

        # Ask the Agent about the user
        sync_agent.print_response("What do you know about me?")


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Async Variant
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


async def run_async() -> None:
    # Initialize the ZepAsyncTools
    async_zep_tools = ZepAsyncTools(
        user_id="agno", session_id="agno-async-session", add_instructions=True
    )

    # Initialize the Agent
    async_agent = Agent(
        model=OpenAIChat(),
        tools=[async_zep_tools],
        dependencies={
            "memory": lambda: async_zep_tools.get_zep_memory(memory_type="context"),
        },
        add_dependencies_to_context=True,
    )

    # Interact with the Agent
    await async_agent.aprint_response("My name is John Billings")
    await async_agent.aprint_response("I live in NYC")
    await async_agent.aprint_response("I'm going to a concert tomorrow")

    # Allow the memories to sync with Zep database
    time.sleep(10)

    # Refresh the context
    async_agent.dependencies["memory"] = await async_zep_tools.get_zep_memory(
        memory_type="context"
    )

    # Ask the Agent about the user
    await async_agent.aprint_response("What do you know about me?")


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

if __name__ == "__main__":
    run_sync()
    asyncio.run(run_async())

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Run the Example

# Clone and setup repo
git clone https://github.com/agno-agi/agno.git
cd agno/cookbook/91_tools

# Create and activate virtual environment
./scripts/demo_setup.sh
source .venvs/demo/bin/activate

python zep_tools.py
For details, see Zep tools cookbook.