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from praisonaiagents import Agent

agent = Agent(name="assistant", instructions="You are a helpful AI assistant.")
agent.start("Hello! What can you do?")
PraisonAI provides a rich set of features for building sophisticated AI agent systems. This guide organises features by category to help you discover and implement the capabilities you need. The user explores feature categories; agents combine tools, memory, and workflows for each task.

How It Works

🚀 Core Agent Features

Agents

Fundamental agent concepts and creation

Tasks

Task definition and management

Tools

Agent tools and capabilities

Memory

Basic memory systems

🧠 Advanced Intelligence

Advanced Memory

Quality-based, entity, user, and graph memory systems

Model Router

Intelligent LLM selection based on task requirements

Model Capabilities

Model feature detection and comparison

RouterAgent

Dynamic model selection and cost optimization

🔄 Workflow & Process

Process Workflows

Conditional execution with decision nodes

Handoffs

Agent-to-agent task delegation

Approval System

Human-in-the-loop approval for critical operations

Routing

Dynamic task routing and workflow branching

📊 Data & Knowledge

Knowledge Bases

Static reference information for agents

RAG

Retrieval Augmented Generation

Chunking Strategies

Document chunking for efficient retrieval

Context Management

Automatic token limit handling

📈 Monitoring & Performance

Telemetry

Performance tracking and monitoring

Display Callbacks

Comprehensive callback system for UI

AgentOps

Third-party monitoring integration

Latency Tracking

Performance optimization metrics

🎯 Specialized Agents

AutoAgents

Automatically created and managed agents

Mini Agents

Lightweight, focused AI agents

Code Agent

Specialized agent for code generation

Math Agent

Mathematical computation specialist

🔒 Safety & Control

Guardrails

Safety constraints and validation

Approval System

Human oversight for critical actions

Session Management

Stateful interactions with persistence

Input Handling

Safe input processing and validation

🎨 UI & Integration

UI Overview

User interface options

Gradio Interface

Web-based agent interfaces

Streamlit Apps

Interactive agent applications

MCP Integration

Model Context Protocol support

🚄 Advanced Features

Async Processing

Asynchronous agent execution

Parallelization

Concurrent task execution

Multimodal

Text, image, and audio processing

Reasoning

Chain-of-thought reasoning

🛠️ Developer Tools

CLI

Command-line interface

Testing

Testing agent systems

Local Development

Development environment setup

API Reference

Complete API documentation

📚 Learning Resources

Course

Comprehensive agent development course

Examples

Real-world implementation examples

Playbook

Best practices and patterns

Video Tutorials

Video guides and demonstrations

🌟 Feature Highlights

  1. Memory Systems - Store and retrieve information across agent interactions
  2. Model Router - Automatically select the best LLM for each task
  3. RAG Integration - Connect agents to your knowledge bases
  4. Display Callbacks - Create rich, interactive UIs
  5. Approval System - Add human oversight to critical operations

Latest Additions

Enterprise Features

Getting Started

1

Choose Your Path

2

Pick Your Features

Select features based on your use case:
  • Chatbots: Memory, Sessions, Display Callbacks
  • Research: RAG, Knowledge, Chunking
  • Automation: Approval, Guardrails, Process
  • Analysis: Telemetry, Model Router, Context Management
3

Build & Deploy

This features overview is continuously updated as new capabilities are added to PraisonAI. Check back regularly or follow our GitHub repository for the latest updates.

Best Practices

Master agents, tasks, and tools before layering memory, RAG, or multi-agent workflows.
Add telemetry and context monitoring in staging so production issues are traceable.
Chatbots need sessions and memory; research agents need RAG and chunking — avoid enabling everything at once.
Run the Quickstart guide, then return here to explore advanced capabilities incrementally.