Grasp Agents

Overview

Grasp Agents is a modular Python framework for building agentic AI pipelines and applications. It is meant to be minimalistic but functional, allowing for rapid experimentation while keeping full and granular low-level control over prompting, LLM handling, tool call loops, and inter-agent communication by avoiding excessive higher-level abstractions.

Features

• Clean formulation of agents as generic entities over I/O schemas and shared context.
• Transparent implementation of common agentic patterns:
  • Single-agent loops
  • Workflows (static communication topology), including loops
  • Agents-as-tools for task delegation
  • Freeform A2A communication via the in-process actor model
• Built-in parallel processing with flexible retries and rate limiting.
• Support for all popular API providers via LiteLLM.
• Granular event streaming with separate events for LLM responses, thinking, and tool calls.
• Callbacks via decorators or subclassing for straightforward customisation of agentic loops and context management.

Project Structure

• processors/, llm_agent.py: Core processor and agent class implementations.
• event_bus.py, runner.py: Communication management and orchestration.
• llm_policy_executor.py: LLM actions and tool call loops.
• prompt_builder.py: Tools for constructing prompts.
• workflow/: Modules for defining and managing static agent workflows.
• llm.py, cloud_llm.py: LLM integration and base LLM functionalities.
• openai/: Modules specific to OpenAI API integration.
• litellm/: Modules specific to LiteLLM integration.
• memory.py, llm_agent_memory.py: Memory management.
• run_context.py: Shared run context management.

Usage

Installation

Assuming your project manages dependencies through uv.

uv add grasp_agents
uv sync

You can of course also install using other managers like poetry or simply pip.

We recommend you use dotenv to automatically set enviroment variables from a .env file containting the necessary API keys, e.g.,

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key

Try it out

Jupyter Notebook Example

Notebook Link

A Grasp-Agents Powered Web App

https://grasp.study/

Script Example

Create a script, e.g., problem_recommender.py:

import asyncio
from typing import Any

from dotenv import load_dotenv
from pydantic import BaseModel

from grasp_agents import BaseTool, LLMAgent, RunContext
from grasp_agents.litellm import LiteLLM, LiteLLMSettings
from grasp_agents.printer import print_event_stream
from grasp_agents.typing.events import ProcPacketOutEvent

load_dotenv()

sys_prompt = """
Your task is to suggest an exciting stats problem to the student. 
You should first ask the student about their education, interests, and preferences, then suggest a problem tailored specifically to them. 

# Instructions
* Use the provided tool to ask questions.
* Ask questions one by one.
* The problem must have all the necessary data.
* Use the final answer tool to provide the problem.
"""


class TeacherQuestion(BaseModel):
    question: str


StudentReply = str


ask_student_tool_description = """
"Ask the student a question and get their reply."

Args:
    question: str
        The question to ask the student.
Returns:
    reply: str
        The student's reply to the question.
"""


class AskStudentTool(BaseTool[TeacherQuestion, StudentReply, None]):
    name: str = "ask_student"
    description: str = ask_student_tool_description

    async def run(self, inp: TeacherQuestion, **kwargs: Any) -> StudentReply:
        return input(inp.question)


class Problem(BaseModel):
    problem: str


teacher = LLMAgent[None, Problem, None](
    name="teacher",
    llm=LiteLLM(
        model_name="claude-sonnet-4-5",
        llm_settings=LiteLLMSettings(reasoning_effort="low"),
    ),
    tools=[AskStudentTool()],
    final_answer_as_tool_call=True,
    sys_prompt=sys_prompt,
    stream_llm_responses=True,
)

async def main():
    ctx = RunContext[None]()
    async for event in print_event_stream(teacher.run_stream("start", ctx=ctx)):
        if isinstance(event, ProcPacketOutEvent):
            result = event.data.payloads[0]
            print(f"\n<Suggested Problem>:\n\n{result.problem}\n")

asyncio.run(main())

Run your script:

uv run problem_recommender.py

You can find more examples in src/grasp_agents/examples/notebooks/agents_demo.ipynb.