Cohere Image Agent Bytes

Pass an image as raw bytes to Cohere’s Aya Vision model for analysis.

image_agent_bytes.py

"""
Cohere Image Agent Bytes
========================

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

from pathlib import Path

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.media import Image
from agno.models.cohere.chat import Cohere
from agno.utils.media import download_image

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

agent = Agent(
    model=Cohere(id="c4ai-aya-vision-8b"),
    markdown=True,
)

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

download_image(
    url="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/GoldenGateBridge-001.jpg",
    output_path=str(image_path),
)

# 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 cohere
   
3. Export your Cohere API key

   Mac/Linux

   export CO_API_KEY="your_co_api_key_here"
   

   $Env:CO_API_KEY="your_co_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/cohere/image_agent_bytes.py