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# Increment State • AI Agent SDK

> increment_state: Increment a numeric state value. Creates the key with default if it doesn't exist.

# increment\_state

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> This is a method of the [**AgentTeam**](../classes/AgentTeam) class in the [**agents**](../modules/agents) module.

Increment a numeric state value. Creates the key with default if it doesn't exist.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
def increment_state(key: str, amount: float, default: float) -> float
```

## Parameters

<ParamField query="key" type="str" required={true}>
  No description available.
</ParamField>

<ParamField query="amount" type="float" required={false} default="1">
  No description available.
</ParamField>

<ParamField query="default" type="float" required={false} default="0">
  No description available.
</ParamField>

### Returns

<ResponseField name="Returns" type="float">
  The result of the operation.
</ResponseField>

## Uses

* `TypeError`

## Source

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