Shell Tools

Let an agent run shell commands to list directory contents with ShellTools.

shell_tools.py

"""
Shell Tools
=============================

Demonstrates shell tools.
"""

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.tools.shell import ShellTools

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


agent = Agent(tools=[ShellTools()])

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    agent.print_response("Show me the contents of the current directory", markdown=True)

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 OpenAI API key

   Mac/Linux

   export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"
   

   $Env:OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"
   
4. Run the example

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

   python shell_tools.py
   

Full source: cookbook/91_tools/shell_tools.py