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# Message Added • AI Agent SDK

> message_added: Emit message added event.

# message\_added

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> This is a method of the [**ContextTraceEmitter**](../classes/ContextTraceEmitter) class in the [**context\_events**](../modules/context_events) module.

Emit message added event.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
def message_added(agent_name: str, role: str, content: str, messages_count: int, tokens_used: int, tokens_budget: int) -> None
```

## Parameters

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

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

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

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

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

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

## Uses

* `ContextEvent`
* `time.time`

## Source

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