Agno

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Overview

The bottom line — what this framework is, who it's for, and when to walk away.

Bottom Line Up Front

Agno is a comprehensive runtime for developing, deploying, and managing scalable agentic software, including single agents, coordinated teams, and structured workflows. It provides a framework for building, a stateless FastAPI runtime for serving, and a control plane for production monitoring. Agno operates within the user's infrastructure, ensuring data ownership and auditability.

Best For

Building, deploying, and managing scalable, production-ready agentic software and multi-agent systems.

Avoid If

Projects not requiring agentic capabilities, complex workflows, or preferring fully managed services.

Strengths

  • +Provides a complete runtime for agentic software, supporting agents, teams, and workflows.
  • +Offers 100+ integrations for building agents with memory, knowledge, and guardrails.
  • +Serves systems as scalable, stateless, session-scoped FastAPI backends for production.
  • +Includes AgentOS UI for testing, monitoring, and managing systems in production.
  • +Ensures per-user and per-session isolation with native tracing and full auditability.
  • +Runs in user's infrastructure, providing full data ownership and control.

Weaknesses

  • The strong specialization in 'agentic software' may introduce complexity or be over-engineered for simpler, non-agentic applications.
  • Requires users to manage their own infrastructure, which adds operational overhead compared to a fully managed service.
  • Building and governing 'distributed, governed multi-agent systems' can entail a significant learning curve and implementation complexity.

Project Health

Is this project alive, well-maintained, and safe to bet on long-term?

Stars

39,181

Open Issues

720

Last Commit

1d ago

Commit Frequency

25x/week

Bus Factor Score

8 / 10

Maintainers

100

Latest Version

v2.5.14

Total Releases

100

Repo Age

3y 11mo

Forks

5,209

Monthly Downloads

1.7M

last 30 days

Versions Published

196

Known Vulnerabilities

2Highest: Critical

Dependent Repos

0

public repos using this

Fit

Does it support the workflows, patterns, and capabilities your team actually needs?

State Management

State is managed as stateless, session-scoped operations, with sessions, memory, knowledge, and traces persisted in the user's database.

Perspective

Your expertise shapes what we build next.

We build for engineers who make real architectural decisions. If something is missing, inaccurate, or could be more useful — we want to hear it.

Last updated: 5 April 2026

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