Redis for Team

Agno supports using Redis as a storage backend for Teams using the RedisDb class.

Usage

Run Redis

Install docker desktop and run Redis on port 6379 using:

docker run --name my-redis -p 6379:6379 -d redis

redis_for_team.py

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

from typing import List

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.redis import RedisDb
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

db = RedisDb(db_url="redis://localhost:6379")

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.
redis_client	Optional[Redis]	-	Redis client instance to use. If not provided a new client will be created.
db_url	Optional[str]	-	Redis connection URL (e.g., "redis://localhost:6379/0" or "rediss://user:pass@host:port/db")
db_prefix	str	"agno"	Prefix for all Redis keys.
expire	Optional[int]	-	TTL for Redis keys in seconds.
session_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store sessions.
memory_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store memories.
metrics_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store metrics.
eval_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store evaluation runs.
knowledge_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store knowledge documents.
traces_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store traces.
spans_table	Optional[str]	-	Name of the table to store spans.