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Complete Example

custom_events.py
import asyncio
from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import Optional

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat
from agno.run.agent import CustomEvent
from agno.tools import tool


# Our custom event, extending the CustomEvent class
@dataclass
class CustomerProfileEvent(CustomEvent):
    """CustomEvent for customer profile."""

    customer_name: Optional[str] = None
    customer_email: Optional[str] = None
    customer_phone: Optional[str] = None


# Our custom tool
@tool()
async def get_customer_profile():
    """
    Get customer profiles.
    """

    yield CustomerProfileEvent(
        customer_name="John Doe",
        customer_email="john.doe@example.com",
        customer_phone="1234567890",
    )


# Setup an Agent with our custom tool.
agent = Agent(
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-4o"),
    tools=[get_customer_profile],
    instructions="Your task is to retrieve customer profiles for the user.",
)


async def run_agent():
    # Running the Agent: it should call our custom tool and yield the custom event
    async for event in agent.arun(
        "Hello, can you get me the customer profile for customer with ID 123?",
        stream=True,
    ):
        if isinstance(event, CustomEvent):
            print(f"✅ Custom event emitted: {event}")


asyncio.run(run_agent())

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Usage

1

Create a virtual environment

Open the Terminal and create a python virtual environment.
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
2

Install libraries

pip install -U agno openai
3

Export your OpenAI API key

  export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"
4

Create a Python file

Create a Python file and add the above code.
touch custom_events.py
5

Run Agent

python custom_events.py
6

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