DynamoDB for Team

Agno supports using DynamoDB as a storage backend for Teams using the DynamoDb class.

Usage

You need to provide aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key parameters to the DynamoDb class.

dynamo_for_team.py

"""
Run: `uv pip install openai newspaper4k lxml_html_clean agno` to install the dependencies
"""

from typing import List

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.dynamo import DynamoDb
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses
from agno.team import Team
from agno.tools.hackernews import HackerNewsTools
from agno.tools.hackernews import HackerNewsTools
from pydantic import BaseModel

# Setup the DynamoDB database
db = DynamoDb()

class Article(BaseModel):
    title: str
    summary: str
    reference_links: List[str]

hn_researcher = Agent(
    name="HackerNews Researcher",
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.2"),
    role="Gets top stories from hackernews.",
    tools=[HackerNewsTools()],
)

web_searcher = Agent(
    name="Web Searcher",
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.2"),
    role="Searches the web for information on a topic",
    tools=[HackerNewsTools()],
    add_datetime_to_context=True,
)

hn_team = Team(
    name="HackerNews Team",
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.2"),
    members=[hn_researcher, web_searcher],
    db=db,
    instructions=[
        "First, search hackernews for what the user is asking about.",
        "Then, ask the web searcher to search for each story to get more information.",
        "Finally, provide a thoughtful and engaging summary.",
    ],
    output_schema=Article,
    markdown=True,
    show_members_responses=True,
)

hn_team.print_response("Write an article about the top 2 stories on hackernews")

Params

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
id	Optional[str]	-	The ID of the database instance. UUID by default.
db_client	None	-	The DynamoDB client to use.
region_name	optional[str]	-	AWS region name.
aws_access_key_id	optional[str]	-	AWS access key ID.
aws_secret_access_key	optional[str]	-	AWS secret access key.
session_table	optional[str]	-	The name of the session table.
memory_table	optional[str]	-	The name of the memory table.
metrics_table	optional[str]	-	The name of the metrics table.
eval_table	optional[str]	-	The name of the eval table.
knowledge_table	optional[str]	-	The name of the knowledge table.
traces_table	optional[str]	-	The name of the traces table.
spans_table	optional[str]	-	The name of the spans table.