grasp_agents 0.2.8

Grasp Agents Library

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, and inter-agent communication by avoiding excessive higher-level abstractions.

Features

• Clean formulation of agents as generic entities over:
  • I/O schemas
  • Agent state
  • Shared context
• Transparent implementation of common agentic patterns:
  • Single-agent loops with an optional "ReAct mode" to enforce reasoning between the tool calls
  • Workflows (static communication topology), including loops
  • Agents-as-tools for task delegation
  • Freeform A2A communication via the in-process actor model
• Batch processing support outside of agentic loops
• Simple logging and usage/cost tracking

Project Structure

• base_agent.py, llm_agent.py, comm_agent.py: Core agent class implementations.
• agent_message.py, agent_message_pool.py: Messaging and message pool management.
• llm_agent_state.py: State management for LLM agents.
• tool_orchestrator.py: Orchestration of tools used by agents.
• prompt_builder.py: Tools for constructing prompts.
• workflow/: Modules for defining and managing agent workflows.
• cloud_llm.py, llm.py: LLM integration and base LLM functionalities.
• openai/: Modules specific to OpenAI API integration.
• memory.py: Memory management for agents (currently only message history).
• run_context.py: Context management for agent runs.
• usage_tracker.py: Tracking of API usage and costs.
• costs_dict.yaml: Dictionary for cost tracking (update if needed).
• rate_limiting/: Basic rate limiting tools.

Quickstart & Installation Variants (UV Package manager)

Note: You can check this sample project code in the src/grasp_agents/examples/demo/uv folder. Feel free to copy and paste the code from there to a separate project. There are also examples for other package managers.

1. Prerequisites

Install the UV Package Manager:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

2. Create Project & Install Dependencies

mkdir my-test-uv-app
cd my-test-uv-app
uv init .

Create and activate a virtual environment:

uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate

Add and sync dependencies:

uv add grasp_agents
uv sync

3. Example Usage

Ensure you have a .env file with your OpenAI and Google AI Studio API keys set

OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key
GOOGLE_AI_STUDIO_API_KEY=your_google_ai_studio_api_key

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

import asyncio
import re
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any

from dotenv import load_dotenv
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field

from grasp_agents.grasp_logging import setup_logging
from grasp_agents.llm_agent import LLMAgent
from grasp_agents.openai.openai_llm import OpenAILLM, OpenAILLMSettings
from grasp_agents.run_context import RunContextWrapper
from grasp_agents.typing.message import Conversation
from grasp_agents.typing.tool import BaseTool

load_dotenv()


# Configure the logger to output to the console and/or a file
setup_logging(
    logs_file_path="grasp_agents_demo.log",
    logs_config_path=Path().cwd() / "configs/logging/default.yaml",
)

sys_prompt_react = """
Your task is to suggest an exciting stats problem to a student.
Ask the student about their education, interests, and preferences, then suggest a problem tailored to them.

# Instructions
* Ask questions one by one.
* Provide your thinking before asking a question and after receiving a reply.
* The problem must be enclosed in <PROBLEM> tags.
"""


class TeacherQuestion(BaseModel):
    question: str = Field(..., description="The question to ask the student.")


StudentReply = str


class AskStudentTool(BaseTool[TeacherQuestion, StudentReply, Any]):
    name: str = "ask_student_tool"
    description: str = "Ask the student a question and get their reply."

    async def run(
        self, inp: TeacherQuestion, ctx: RunContextWrapper[Any] | None = None
    ) -> StudentReply:
        return input(inp.question)


Problem = str


teacher = LLMAgent[Any, Problem, None](
    agent_id="teacher",
    llm=OpenAILLM(
        model_name="openai:gpt-4.1",
        llm_settings=OpenAILLMSettings(temperature=0.1)
    ),
    tools=[AskStudentTool()],
    max_turns=20,
    react_mode=True,
    sys_prompt=sys_prompt_react,
    set_state_strategy="reset",
)


@teacher.exit_tool_call_loop_handler
def exit_tool_call_loop(
    conversation: Conversation, ctx: RunContextWrapper[Any] | None, **kwargs: Any
) -> bool:
    return r"<PROBLEM>" in str(conversation[-1].content)


@teacher.parse_output_handler
def parse_output(
    conversation: Conversation, ctx: RunContextWrapper[Any] | None, **kwargs: Any
) -> Problem:
    message = str(conversation[-1].content)
    matches = re.findall(r"<PROBLEM>(.*?)</PROBLEM>", message, re.DOTALL)

    return matches[0]


async def main():
    ctx = RunContextWrapper[None](print_messages=True)
    out = await teacher.run(ctx=ctx)
    print(out.payloads[0])
    print(ctx.usage_tracker.total_usage)


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.