Azure OpenAI Reasoning Tools

Azure OpenAI agent pairs ReasoningTools with web search to write an NVDA vs TSLA report.

Microsoft schedules the pinned gpt-4o-mini model for retirement on October 1, 2026 and lists gpt-4.1-mini as its replacement. Azure OpenAI’s id identifies your deployment, so deploy the replacement and use that deployment name before running. See the Azure model retirement schedule.

azure_openai_reasoning_tools.py

"""
Azure Openai Reasoning Tools
============================

Demonstrates this reasoning cookbook example.
"""

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.azure.openai_chat import AzureOpenAI
from agno.tools.reasoning import ReasoningTools
from agno.tools.websearch import WebSearchTools


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Example
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def run_example() -> None:
    reasoning_agent = Agent(
        model=AzureOpenAI(id="gpt-4o-mini"),
        tools=[
            WebSearchTools(),
            ReasoningTools(
                enable_think=True,
                enable_analyze=True,
                add_instructions=True,
                add_few_shot=True,
            ),
        ],
        instructions="Use tables where possible. Think about the problem step by step.",
        markdown=True,
    )

    reasoning_agent.print_response(
        "Write a report comparing NVDA to TSLA.",
        stream=True,
        show_full_reasoning=True,
    )


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Example
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    run_example()

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 ddgs openai
   
3. Export environment variables

   Mac/Linux

   export AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY="your_azure_openai_api_key_here"
   export AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT="your_azure_openai_endpoint_here"
   

   $Env:AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY="your_azure_openai_api_key_here"
   $Env:AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT="your_azure_openai_endpoint_here"
   
4. Configure the Azure deployment

   Deploy gpt-4.1-mini. Name the deployment gpt-4.1-mini, or replace AzureOpenAI(id="gpt-4o-mini") with AzureOpenAI(id="<your-deployment-name>") in the saved file.

5. Run the example

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

   python azure_openai_reasoning_tools.py
   

Full source: cookbook/10_reasoning/tools/azure_openai_reasoning_tools.py