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# SurrealDB for Team

> Store team sessions and run history in SurrealDB with SurrealDb.

`SurrealDb` stores a Team's sessions and run history in SurrealDB.

## Usage

Install dependencies:

```shell theme={null}
uv pip install anthropic surrealdb ddgs
```

### Run SurrealDB

Install [Docker Desktop](https://docs.docker.com/get-started/get-docker/), then start SurrealDB on port `8000`:

```bash theme={null}
docker run --rm --pull always -p 8000:8000 surrealdb/surrealdb:latest start --user root --pass root
```

```python surrealdb_for_team.py theme={null}
from typing import List

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.surrealdb import SurrealDb
from agno.models.anthropic import Claude
from agno.team import Team
from agno.tools.hackernews import HackerNewsTools
from agno.tools.websearch import WebSearchTools
from pydantic import BaseModel

SURREALDB_URL = "ws://localhost:8000"
SURREALDB_USER = "root"
SURREALDB_PASSWORD = "root"
SURREALDB_NAMESPACE = "agno"
SURREALDB_DATABASE = "surrealdb_for_team"

credentials = {"username": SURREALDB_USER, "password": SURREALDB_PASSWORD}
db = SurrealDb(
    client=None,
    db_url=SURREALDB_URL,
    db_creds=credentials,
    db_ns=SURREALDB_NAMESPACE,
    db_db=SURREALDB_DATABASE,
)


class Article(BaseModel):
    title: str
    summary: str
    reference_links: List[str]


hn_researcher = Agent(
    name="HackerNews Researcher",
    model=Claude(id="claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929"),
    role="Gets top stories from HackerNews.",
    tools=[HackerNewsTools()],
)

web_searcher = Agent(
    name="Web Searcher",
    model=Claude(id="claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929"),
    role="Searches the web for information on a topic",
    tools=[WebSearchTools()],
    add_datetime_to_context=True,
)

hn_team = Team(
    name="HackerNews Team",
    model=Claude(id="claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929"),
    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, summarize each story and include its reference links.",
    ],
    output_schema=Article,
    markdown=True,
    show_members_responses=True,
)

hn_team.print_response("Write an article about the top 2 stories on HackerNews")
```

## Parameters

<Snippet file="db-surrealdb-params.mdx" />