Where Each Option Belongs

AgentTeam (also exported as PraisonAIAgents) applies autonomy at the team level; the feature options belong on each Agent.

Quick Start

Put feature options on each Agent

Give every agent its own web, knowledge, or other feature options.

from praisonaiagents import Agent, AgentTeam

researcher = Agent(
    name="Researcher",
    instructions="Research the topic.",
    web=True,                    # Feature options live on the Agent
    knowledge=["notes.txt"],
)
writer = Agent(
    name="Writer",
    instructions="Write a summary.",
    reflection=True,
)

team = AgentTeam(agents=[researcher, writer])
team.start("Summarise the latest AI safety research")

Put autonomy on the team

autonomy is the one option the team applies for you.

from praisonaiagents import Agent, AgentTeam

team = AgentTeam(
    agents=[Agent(name="Worker", instructions="Do the task.")],
    autonomy=True,               # Applied at the team level
)
team.start("Plan and execute the task")

How It Works

AgentTeam accepts six feature options for API symmetry with Agent, but does not apply them at the team level. Passing them logs a warning and ignores the value.

Option	Belongs on	Passing it to the team does…
`autonomy`	`AgentTeam`	Applies at the team level
`guardrails`	Each `Agent`	Warns and is ignored at the team level
`web`	Each `Agent`	Warns and is ignored at the team level
`reflection`	Each `Agent`	Warns and is ignored at the team level
`caching`	Each `Agent`	Warns and is ignored at the team level
`learn`	Each `Agent`	Warns and is ignored at the team level
`knowledge`	Each `Agent`	Warns and is ignored at the team level

Passing guardrails, web, reflection, caching, learn, or knowledge to AgentTeam / PraisonAIAgents triggers:

AgentTeam received ['web'] but does not yet apply them at the team level;
pass these to individual Agent(...) instances instead.

Common Patterns

Move the option down from the team onto each agent.

from praisonaiagents import Agent, AgentTeam

team = AgentTeam(
    agents=[
        Agent(name="Researcher", instructions="Research."),
        Agent(name="Writer", instructions="Write."),
    ],
    web=True,          # Warns and is ignored
)

from praisonaiagents import Agent, AgentTeam

team = AgentTeam(
    agents=[
        Agent(name="Researcher", instructions="Research.", web=True),
        Agent(name="Writer", instructions="Write.", web=True),
    ],
)

Best Practices

Set feature options per role

Each agent has a different job. Give the researcher web=True and the writer reflection=True rather than forcing one option across the whole team.

Reserve the team for autonomy

autonomy is the only feature option the team propagates. Keep team-level configuration to autonomy, process, and manager_llm.

Watch the logs

A warning on construction means an option landed in the wrong place. Move it onto the Agent(...) instances it was meant for.

Knowledge Quick Start

Give each agent its own documents

Multi-Agent Pipelines

Coordinate multiple agents

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Multi-Agent Pipelines

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