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9e1f77f52a feat: improve external agent APIs and framework cookbooks (#10926)
## Summary

Make Claude and Codex agents easier to configure and test behind
AgentOS. Ordinary settings no longer require untyped `_kwargs`
dictionaries, and response printers return the final run and raise on
failure so cookbook failures are visible.

- Add typed native options and named tools, permissions, MCP and
configuration fields. Named non-None settings take precedence;
caller-owned configuration is copied. Legacy `_kwargs` aliases warn.
- Group related constructor parameters and make built-in adapters
keyword-only. Expose read-only `agent.sdk`; retain the Python
`framework` compatibility alias and legacy session reads. API/session
metadata emits only `sdk`.
- Give sync/async response printers a shared result/error contract,
tool-event deduplication and persistence warnings. Correct public
streaming and async types, including optional final `RunOutput`.
- Improve Claude/Codex cookbooks in their existing framework folders:
streaming printers, native SDK comparisons, tool fixtures, structured
output, sessions, media and AgentOS HTTP/SSE examples. Include a
reproducible reliability kit and separately pinned historical results.
- Integrate current main, including media, retries, metrics, compaction,
structured output, and #10958/#10962 session-busy/replay changes.
Preserve media on successful, failed and cancelled runs and both
upstream/DX regression coverage.

## Type of change

- [x] Bug fix
- [x] New feature
- [x] Breaking change
- [x] Improvement
- [ ] Model update
- [x] Other: Cookbook and test coverage

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## Checklist

- [x] Code complies with style guidelines
- [x] Ran format/validation scripts (`./scripts/format.sh` and
`./scripts/validate.sh`)
- [x] Self-review completed
- [x] Documentation updated (comments, docstrings)
- [x] Examples and guides: Relevant cookbook examples have been included
or updated (if applicable)
- [ ] Tested in clean environment
- [x] Tests added/updated (if applicable)

### Duplicate and AI-Generated PR Check

- [x] I have searched existing open pull requests and confirmed that no
other PR already addresses this issue
- [ ] If a similar PR exists, I have explained below why this PR is a
better approach
- [x] Check if this PR was entirely AI-generated (by Copilot, Claude
Code, Cursor, etc.)

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## Additional Notes

### Migration

Use named constructor arguments and select the adapter class instead of
passing `framework=`. Use `options`, `thread_options` and `turn_options`
instead of their deprecated `_kwargs` names. Printers return the
terminal `RunOutput` and raise on errors/cancellation by default; use
`raise_on_error=False` to opt out. Unsupported separate media and native
input objects fail explicitly. Import paths and transcript namespaces
remain unchanged. Agno owns session selection; native lifecycle
overrides that conflict with it are rejected.

### Validation — 11 October 2026

Integrated main `dbdca9ac6d9de6604383e6f4f04653a8244eb3c7` into DX head
`c88e47d54de487f4d14b95c684a4c3e5889e8d0f`. From the normal checkout in
the existing `.venvs/claude-dx-validation` environment:

```bash
source .venvs/claude-dx-validation/bin/activate
python -m pytest libs/agno/tests/unit/agents \
  libs/agno/tests/unit/os/test_external_agent_background_stream.py \
  libs/agno/tests/unit/os/test_schemas.py \
  libs/agno/tests/unit/os/test_db_replay_fallback.py \
  libs/agno/tests/unit/os/test_queue_worker.py \
  libs/agno/tests/unit/run/test_queue_store.py \
  libs/agno/tests/unit/os/test_ws_replay_floor.py -q -o addopts=''
./scripts/format.sh
./scripts/validate.sh
```

620 tests pass, including public typing, media/schema combinations,
retries, busy-session handling, replay and queue contracts. Full
formatting and validation pass (1115 Agno / 21 agnoctl mypy files). No
new live SDK calls were made for this merge refresh. Earlier
live/provider and eight-hour paced-soak results are historical, with
pinned revisions, first failures and limitations retained in the
framework and reliability TEST_LOG files; they are not certification of
this combined revision.

The session-busy check is not an atomic distributed claim. Applications
must serialize same-session submissions across replicas; the cookbooks
state that limit. Native Claude resume and Codex bounded-history
fallback remain distinct. Retries can repeat tool effects. Sandbox
execution and final live release acceptance remain separate work.


### Final review follow-up — 11 October 2026

Final revision: `1cc091cc4c`. Found and fixed an interaction between
native options
and media: attachments now use the effective SDK workspace (including
Claude
native/legacy options and Codex thread/turn overrides) and absolute
paths for
relative working directories. Cleanup and recorded upload roots use the
same
workspace. Fifteen targeted cases failed before the fix; all 20 cases
pass after.

Expanded local validation:

```bash
python -m pytest libs/agno/tests/unit/agents libs/agno/tests/unit/os \
  libs/agno/tests/unit/run -q -o addopts=''
python -m pytest libs/agno/tests/unit/os/test_public_json_bounds.py -q -o addopts=''
```

4,484 unique tests pass across these runs; 23 cases skip. The broad run
passed
4,467 cases; 17 HTTP cases initially hit the execution sandbox's
loopback-bind
restriction, then passed when the full 29-case HTTP file was rerun with
loopback
access. An initial optional Telegram import failure was resolved in the
isolated
validation environment. Required full format/validation passes. No new
live
provider calls or soak; final-commit CI is a separate merge gate.

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Co-authored-by: kausmeows <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Yash Pratap Solanky <[email protected]>
2026-10-11 13:00:57 +01:00
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Framework integrations

Run a coding harness through Agno, inspect its tools, then serve it through AgentOS. Start with one provider: Claude or Codex. Both review the same small shipping project.

The harness owns its agent loop, tool execution and native context management. Agno adapts its output to runs and events. AgentOS adds the HTTP API and run storage used in this first exercise.

This directory also contains LangGraph, DSPy, Antigravity, and the mixed-framework quickstart. Claude and Codex each keep their starting and advanced examples in one folder.

Start here

Use a source checkout containing this cookbook. A package version alone does not identify which unreleased adapter changes are present.

From the repository root:

uv venv .venvs/harnesses --python 3.12
source .venvs/harnesses/bin/activate
uv pip install -e 'libs/agno[os,sqlite]'

Then install and authenticate the SDK in the provider's README. You only need the provider you choose. These scripts make real model calls. Use the same interpreter for installation, examples and tests.

Follow the same four steps with either provider

Step Claude Codex What to inspect
1. First run claude_basic.py codex_basic.py Answer, run ID and terminal status
2. Compare the SDK claude_native_sdk.py codex_native_sdk.py Same prompt/model through the native SDK
3. Inspect code claude_tools.py codex_tools.py Streamed text, visible tools and actual file results
4. Serve it claude_agentos.py codex_agentos.py HTTP/SSE and persisted runs

Start with python cookbook/frameworks/claude-agent-sdk/claude_basic.py or python cookbook/frameworks/codex/codex_basic.py. Every script is independent. The tools exercise should explain fees of 8, 0 and 0 dollars for the three orders. No editing of the sample project is required.

The basic and native SDK examples contain the policy in the prompt. They establish a round trip, not file access. The tools example must actually read the fixture. The basic examples use print_response(), which returns a RunOutput and raises on errors or cancellation by default. The native SDK and Codex tools examples also check terminal results explicitly; Claude tools use the same response printer. Failed runs exit unsuccessfully.

What this first set establishes

Area Current exercise and boundary
Text and tools Live standalone streaming and HTTP streaming/non-streaming; SDK-specific details are translated, not exposed losslessly
Product history The AgentOS examples save Agno runs/tool results in a local SQLite file
Claude native state With this SQLite adapter, native entries are mirrored through the Claude SDK session store; successful mirroring and cross-process recovery need their own tests
Codex native state Agno stores the thread ID; native thread files remain in Codex's local storage
Durability This set does not prove disconnect survival, durable queue acceptance, retries or crash recovery
Advanced SDK features Compaction, subagents, skills, plugins, approvals and checkpoint branching are separate exercises

Product history, native conversation state and workspace files are different things. Saving a run does not establish recovery of all three. In the current adapters, a missing native session can fall back to a new conversation seeded with Agno history; that is not proof of native continuity.

Support limitations live here and in the provider READMEs. Fresh observations live in TEST_LOG.md; use TEST_PROMPT.md to reproduce them.

Runtime boundaries

The server examples bind to 127.0.0.1, have no authentication and use SQLite for local development. Production requires explicit authorization, durable storage and an execution/coordination topology appropriate to the product. Neither a working directory nor a tool allowlist provides tenant isolation.

Both examples use bounded prompts. Native scripts time out after 120 seconds, and the live test suite bounds subprocess/HTTP waits. Those are test limits, not billing guarantees.

PORT changes the local server port. HARNESS_STATE_DIR changes the SQLite directory; otherwise it is tmp/harnesses/<provider>/ under your launch directory. Stop the server before removing its disposable local state. That does not remove SDK-native session files.

Existing examples and the next exercises

The Claude guide and Codex guide include sessions, MCP tools, background execution and other advanced examples. Their historical test logs do not imply verification by the starting-example suite.

Next: native session recovery and storage failures; long conversations and compaction; background/queue/disconnect/retry/multi-replica exercises; step replay; skills/plugins/registry; interfaces and session-owned sandboxes. These are follow-up topics, not guarantees made by this first set.

Adapter API changes for 3.2

Configure built-in adapters with keywords, for example ClaudeAgent(name="Reviewer", model="claude-sonnet-5-5"). Positional constructor arguments are no longer accepted. Related fields are grouped in the constructor signature. This applies to Claude, Codex, LangGraph, DSPy and Antigravity. Python 3.9 remains supported by the adapter layer; each native SDK has its own Python requirements.

The integration is identified by read-only agent.sdk, selected by the agent class. For example, Claude uses "claude-agent-sdk" and Codex uses "codex". Neither sdk nor framework is a constructor option. agent.framework remains a compatibility alias for reads; calls such as ClaudeAgent(framework="claude-agent-sdk") must remove that argument and select the corresponding adapter class instead. API metadata and new session metadata include both keys; existing transcript storage namespaces and database columns keep their original names and values.

print_response() and aprint_response() return the final RunOutput, including run ID, status and tools. Errors and cancellations are displayed explicitly and raise by default. To inspect an unsuccessful result without raising:

result = agent.print_response("Review the project", stream=True, raise_on_error=False)
print(result.status)

The async equivalent is result = await agent.aprint_response(..., stream=True). Interactive printing rejects background=True; call arun(background=True) directly for background execution. Foreground streams yield event objects; background streams yield SSE strings. With yield_run_output=True, either stream appends a terminal RunOutput.

Separate images, audio, videos and files inputs are rejected by the current adapters before work starts. Empty collections are accepted. This does not restrict file reads through the harness's native tools; it prevents uploaded inputs from being silently discarded. Media support needs an explicit adapter implementation.

Codex now accepts native client_options plus typed thread_options and turn_options. The old thread_kwargs / turn_kwargs names are deprecated. Explicit named settings take precedence over either form, including empty values and False; callers that relied on conflicting raw overrides must update them. Use mcp_servers for native MCP configuration. Codex input must be a string; unsupported native input objects fail explicitly. See the Codex configuration guide.