Agent with Knowledge

Code

1from kern.agent import Agent
2from kern.knowledge.knowledge import Knowledge
3from kern.models.litellm import LiteLLM
4from kern.vectordb.pgvector import PgVector
5
6db_url = "postgresql+psycopg://ai:ai@localhost:5532/ai"
7
8knowledge_base = Knowledge(
9 vector_db=PgVector(table_name="recipes", db_url=db_url),
10)
11knowledge_base.insert(
12 url="https://kern-public.s3.amazonaws.com/recipes/ThaiRecipes.pdf"
13)
14
15agent = Agent(
16 model=LiteLLM(id="gpt-5-mini"),
17 knowledge=knowledge_base,
18 )
19agent.print_response("How to make Thai curry?", markdown=True)

Usage

Set up your virtual environment

1uv venv --python 3.12
2source .venv/bin/activate
1uv venv --python 3.12
2.venv\Scripts\activate

Set your API key

1export LITELLM_API_KEY=xxx

Install dependencies

1uv pip install -U litellm openai kern-ai sqlalchemy psycopg pgvector

Run Agent

1python cookbook/11_models/litellm/knowledge.py