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# start • AI Agent SDK

> start: Establish the connection and run the inbound loop until stopped.

# start

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

Establish the connection and run the inbound loop until stopped.

This is the seam the wrapper's supervision layer wraps: an adapter's
`start` should run its inbound source (poll/listen/socket) and only
return when the channel is stopped cleanly, raising on an unexpected
drop so the supervisor can reconnect with backoff. Concrete adapters
override this with their platform run loop.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
async def start() -> None
```

## Uses

* `NotImplementedError`

## Used By

* [`Heartbeat.start`](../functions/Heartbeat-start)
* [`AgentTeam.start`](../functions/AgentTeam-start)
* [`AgentTeam.run`](../functions/AgentTeam-run)
* [`AgentTeam.start_for_each`](../functions/AgentTeam-start_for_each)
* [`AgentTeam.spawn_sub_agent`](../functions/AgentTeam-spawn_sub_agent)

## Source

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  `praisonaiagents/bots/base.py` at line 423
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