SurrealDB for Team

Persist a HackerNews research team’s sessions in SurrealDB with structured Article output.

surrealdb_for_team.py

r"""
Run SurrealDB in a container before running this script

```
docker run --rm --pull always -p 8000:8000 surrealdb/surrealdb:latest start --user root --pass root
```

or with

```
surreal start -u root -p root
```

Then:

1. Run: `uv pip install anthropic ddgs newspaper4k lxml_html_clean surrealdb agno` to install the dependencies
2. Run: `python cookbook/db/surrealdb/surrealdb_for_team.py` to run the team
"""

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

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

creds = {"username": SURREALDB_USER, "password": SURREALDB_PASSWORD}
db = SurrealDb(None, SURREALDB_URL, creds, SURREALDB_NAMESPACE, SURREALDB_DATABASE)


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Team
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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, provide a thoughtful and engaging summary.",
    ],
    output_schema=Article,
    markdown=True,
    show_members_responses=True,
)

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Team
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    hn_team.print_response("Write an article about the top 2 stories on hackernews")

Run the Example

1. Set up your virtual environment

   Mac

   uv venv --python 3.12
   source .venv/bin/activate
   
2. Install dependencies

   uv pip install -U agno anthropic ddgs surrealdb
   
3. Export your Anthropic API key

   Mac/Linux

   export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your_anthropic_api_key_here"
   
4. Run SurrealDB

   docker run -d --rm --name surrealdb --pull always -p 8000:8000 surrealdb/surrealdb:latest start --user root --pass root
   
5. Run the example

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

   python surrealdb_for_team.py
   

Full source: cookbook/06_storage/surrealdb/surrealdb_for_team.py