Agentics

Transduction is all you need

Agentics is a Python framework that provides structured, scalable, and semantically grounded agentic computation. It enables developers to build AI-powered pipelines where all operations are based on typed data transformations, combining the power of Pydantic models and LLMs with the flexibility of asynchronous execution.

Getting started

Learn how to install Agentic, set up your environment, and run your first logical transduction. Getting Started

Authors

• Principal Investigator
  • Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, IBM Research, gliozzo@us.ibm.com
• Core Contributors:
  • Junkyu Lee, IBM Research, Junkyu.Lee@ibm.com
  • Naweed Aghmad Khan, IBM Research, naweed.khan@ibm.com
  • Nahuel Defosse, IBM Research, nahuel.defosse@ibm.com
  • Christodoulos Constantinides, IBM Watson, Christodoulos.Constantinides@ibm.com
  • Mustafa Eyceoz, RedHat, Mustafa.Eyceoz@partner.ibm.com

Agentics is an implementation of 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

We welcome new AG entusiasts to extend this framework with new applications and extension to the language.

🚀 Key Features

Typed Agentic Computation: Define workflows over structured types using standard Pydantic schemas.

Logical Transduction (<<): Transform data between types using LLMs with few-shot examples, tools, and memory.

Async Mapping and Reduction: Apply async mapping (amap) and aggregation (areduce) functions over datasets.

Batch Execution & Retry: Automatically handles batch-based asynchronous execution with graceful fallback.

Domain Customization

• Prompt Templates Customize prompting behavior and add ad-hoc instructions
• Memory Augmentation: Use retrieval-augmented memory to inform transduction.

Built-in Support for Tools: Integrate LangChain tools or custom functions.

Tutorial

🚀 Documentation

👉 Getting Started: Learn how to install Agentic, set up your environment, and run your first logical transduction.

🧠 Agentics: Explore how Agentics wraps pydantic models into transduction-ready agents.

🔁 Transduction: Discover how the << operator implements logical transduction between types and how to control its behavior.

🛠️ Tools: Learn how to integrate external tools (e.g., LangChain, CrewAI) to provide access to external data necessary for logical transduction.

📘 Example Usage

from agentics import AG
from pydantic import BaseModel

class Answer(BaseModel):
    answer: str
    justification: str
    confidence: float

# Instantiate an Agentics object with a target type
qa_agent = AG(atype=Answer)

# Perform transduction from text prompts
qa_agent = await (qa_agent << [
    "Who is the president of the US?",
    "When is the end of the world predicted?",
    "This is a report from the US embassy"
])

# Access structured answers
for result in qa_agent.states:
    print(result.answer, result.confidence)

🧠 Conceptual Overview

Agentics models workflows as transformations between typed states. Each instance of Agentics includes:

atype: A Pydantic model representing the schema.

states: A list of objects of that type.

Optional llm, tools, prompt_template, memory.

Operations:

amap(func): Applies an async function over each state.

areduce(func): Reduces a list of states into a single value.

<<: Performs logical transduction from source to target Agentics.

🔧 Advanced Usage

Customizing Prompts

agent.prompt_template = """ You are an assistant that extracts key information. Please respond using the format {answer}, {justification}, {confidence}. """

📚 Documentation

Full documentation and examples are available at:

🧪 Tests

Run all tests using:

uv run pytest

Examples

Run all scripts in example folder using uv

uv run python examples/hello_world.py

$ 📄 License

Apache 2.0

👥 Authors

Developed by Alfio Gliozzo and contributors.

Contributions welcome!

Core team Alfio Gliozzo, Junkyu Lee, Naweed Aghmad, Nahuel Defosse, Christodoulos Constantinides, Mustafa Eyceoz and contributors.

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