agentory 0.1.1

Minimal agent runtime with MCP integration, declarative tools, and streaming

agentory

A lightweight Python library for building tool-calling agents.

Installation

pip install agentory

Install only the providers you actually need

pip install "agentory[openai]" # + azure
pip install "agentory[anthropic]"
pip install "agentory[all]"

Requires Python 3.12+.

Quickstart

import asyncio
from llmify import ChatOpenAI
from agentory import Agent, Tools, ToolCallEvent

tools = Tools()

@tools.action("Return the current UTC time as an ISO-8601 string.")
def get_time() -> str:
    from datetime import datetime, timezone
    return datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat()

async def main():
    llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-5.4-mini")
    agent = Agent(
        instructions="You are a helpful assistant.",
        llm=llm,
        tools=tools,
    )
    async for event in agent.run("What time is it?"):
        if isinstance(event, ToolCallEvent):
            print(f"[tool] {event.tool_name}: {event.status}")
        else:
            print(event)

asyncio.run(main())

Core API

Agent

Agent(
    instructions: str,
    llm: ChatOpenAI | ChatAzureOpenAI | ChatAnthropic,
    tools: Tools | None = None,
    mcp_servers: list[MCPServer] | None = None,
    skills: list[Skill] | None = None,
    max_iterations: int = 10,
    context: T | None = None,
)

The main agent class. Call agent.run(task) to get an AsyncIterator[StreamEvent] that yields either plain str chunks or ToolCallEvent objects.

context is an arbitrary value injected into every tool function that declares a context parameter.

Tools

A registry that turns plain functions into LLM-callable tools.

tools = Tools()

@tools.action("Fetch the content of a URL.", status=lambda a: a["url"])
async def fetch(url: str) -> str:
    ...

• description – shown to the LLM in the tool schema.
• name – overrides the function name.
• status – a string or callable producing a human-readable status shown during streaming.

Type hints on parameters are automatically converted to JSON Schema. Use Annotated[str, "description"] to attach per-parameter descriptions.

Tool

Low-level dataclass representing a single tool. Usually created via Tools.action; useful when constructing tools manually or from MCP servers.

Skill

A piece of reusable instructions injected into the system prompt inside a <skill> block.

from pathlib import Path
from agentory import Skill

skill = Skill.from_path(Path("my_skill.md"))
# or load SKILL.md from a directory:
skill = Skill.from_directory(Path("skills/my_skill/"))

agent = Agent(instructions="...", llm=llm, skills=[skill])

Skill files use optional YAML frontmatter for name and description:

---
name: web-search
description: Search the web for information
---

Use the search tool whenever the user asks about recent events...

MCPServerStdio

Connects to any Model Context Protocol server over stdio and exposes its tools to the agent.

from agentory import Agent, MCPServerStdio

server = MCPServerStdio(
    command="npx",
    args=["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem", "/tmp"],
)

async with server:
    agent = Agent(instructions="...", llm=llm, mcp_servers=[server])
    async for event in agent.run("List files in /tmp"):
        print(event)

Options:

Parameter	Default	Description
command	—	Executable to spawn
args	[]	Arguments for the command
env	None	Extra environment variables (inherits current env when None)
cache_tools_list	True	Cache tool discovery after first call
allowed_tools	None	Whitelist of tool names to expose

StreamEvent

type StreamEvent = str | ToolCallEvent

Events yielded by agent.run(). A plain str is a text chunk from the LLM; a ToolCallEvent signals that a tool is being called.

@dataclass
class ToolCallEvent:
    tool_name: str
    status: str | None