How To Use Agno Framework

What Agno actually is

Compared to LangChain, Agno is smaller and more convention-driven — fewer ways to do the same thing. Compared to CrewAI, it has stronger first-class memory and knowledge support and feels less framework-y.

Installing

If you’re on TypeScript, look at Mastra or the Vercel AI SDK. If you need bulletproof type safety on a small typed-output service, Pydantic AI is a better fit. If you’re doing pure document RAG, LlamaIndex has deeper retrieval primitives. Agno shines when you want multi-agent orchestration plus memory plus knowledge in one cohesive Python package without gluing four libraries together.

First working example

A real workflow — a team with memory and knowledge

Gotchas

When NOT to use it