Aimlapi Image Agent Bytes

Pass an image as raw bytes to a Llama vision model served through AIMLAPI.

image_agent_bytes.py

"""
Aimlapi Image Agent Bytes
=========================

Cookbook example for `aimlapi/image_agent_bytes.py`.
"""

from pathlib import Path

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.media import Image
from agno.models.aimlapi import AIMLAPI

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

agent = Agent(
    model=AIMLAPI(id="meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct-Turbo"),
    markdown=True,
)

image_path = Path(__file__).parent.joinpath("sample.jpg")

# Read the image file content as bytes
image_bytes = image_path.read_bytes()

agent.print_response(
    "Tell me about this image",
    images=[
        Image(content=image_bytes),
    ],
    stream=True,
)

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

if __name__ == "__main__":
    pass

Run the Example

1. Set up your virtual environment

   Mac

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

   uv venv --python 3.12
   .venv\Scripts\activate
   
2. Install dependencies

   uv pip install -U agno openai
   
3. Export your AI/ML API API key

   Mac/Linux

   export AIMLAPI_API_KEY="your_aimlapi_api_key_here"
   

   $Env:AIMLAPI_API_KEY="your_aimlapi_api_key_here"
   
4. Run the example

   Save the code above as image_agent_bytes.py, then run:

   python image_agent_bytes.py
   

Full source: cookbook/90_models/aimlapi/image_agent_bytes.py