agentics-py 0.2.1

Agentics is a Python framework that provides structured, scalable, and semantically grounded agentic computation.

Agentics

Transduction is all you need

Agentics is a Python framework for structured, scalable, and semantically grounded agentic computation.
Build AI-powered pipelines as typed data transformations—combining Pydantic schemas, LLM-powered transduction, and async execution.

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🚀 Key Features

• Typed agentic computation: Define workflows over structured types using standard Pydantic models.
• Logical transduction (<<): Transform data between types using LLMs (few-shot examples, tools, memory).
• Async mapping & reduction: Scale out with amap and areduce over datasets.
• Batch execution & retry: Built-in batching, retries, and graceful fallbacks.
• Tool support (MCP): Integrate external tools via MCP.

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📦 Getting Started

Quickstart:

Install Agentics in your current env, set up your environment variable, and run your first logical transduction:

uv pip install agentics-py

set up your .env using the required parameters for your LLM provider of choice. Use .env_sample as a reference.

Find out more 👉 Getting Started: docs/getting_started.md

Examples

Run scripts in the examples/ folder (via uv):

uv run python examples/hello_world.py

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🧪 Example Usage

from typing import Optional
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field

from agentics.core.transducible_functions import Transduce, transducible


class Movie(BaseModel):
    movie_name: Optional[str] = None
    description: Optional[str] = None
    year: Optional[int] = None


class Genre(BaseModel):
    genre: Optional[str] = Field(None, description="e.g., comedy, drama, action")


@transducible(provide_explanation=True)
async def classify_genre(state: Movie) -> Genre:
    """Classify the genre of the source Movie."""
    return Transduce(state)


genre, explanation = await classify_genre(
    Movie(
        movie_name="The Godfather",
        description=(
            "The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control "
            "of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son."
        ),
        year=1972,
    )
)

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📘 Documentation and Notebooks

Complete documentation available here

Notebook	Description
agentics.ipynb	Core Agentics concepts: typed states, operators, and workflow structure
atypes.ipynb	Working with ATypes: schema composition, merging, and type-driven design patterns
logical_transduction_algebra.ipynb	Logical Transduction Algebra: principles and examples behind <<
map_reduce.ipynb	Scale out workflows with amap / areduce (MapReduce-style execution)
synthetic_data_generation.ipynb	Generate structured synthetic datasets using typed transductions
transducible_functions.ipynb	Build reusable @transducible functions, explanations, and transduction control

✅ Tests

Run all tests:

uv run pytest

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📄 License

Apache 2.0

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👥 Authors

Project Lead

• Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo (IBM Research) — [e-mail]

Core Contributors

• Nahuel Defosse (IBM Research) — [e-mail]
• Junkyu Lee (IBM Research) — [e-mail]
• Naweed Aghmad Khan (IBM Research) — [e-mail]
• Christodoulos Constantinides (IBM Watson) — [e-mail]
• Mustafa Eyceoz (Red Hat) — [e-mail]

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🧠 Conceptual Overview

Most “agent frameworks” let untyped text flow through a pipeline. Agentics flips that: types are the interface.
Workflows are expressed as transformations between structured states, with predictable schemas and composable operators.

Because every step is a typed transformation, you can compose workflows safely (merge and compose types/instances, chain transductions, and reuse @transducible functions) without losing semantic structure.

Agentics makes it natural to scale out: apply transformations over collections with async amap, and aggregate results with areduce.

Agentics models workflows as transformations between typed states.

Core operations:

• amap(func): apply an async function over each state
• areduce(func): reduce a list of states into a single value
• <<: logical transduction from source to target Agentics
• &: merge Pydantic types / instances
• @: compose Pydantic types / instances

📜 Reference

Agentics implements Logical Transduction Algebra, described in:

• Alfio Gliozzo, Naweed Khan, Christodoulos Constantinides, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Nahuel Defosse, Junkyu Lee.
  Transduction is All You Need for Structured Data Workflows (August 2025).
  arXiv:2508.15610 — https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15610

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! CONTRIBUTING.md

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