Basic Agent

Make sure to start the proxy server:

litellm --model gpt-5-mini --host 127.0.0.1 --port 4000

Code

cookbook/11_models/litellm_openai/basic.py

from agno.agent import Agent, RunOutput  # noqa
from agno.models.litellm import LiteLLMOpenAI

agent = Agent(model=LiteLLMOpenAI(id="gpt-5-mini"), markdown=True)

# Get the response in a variable
# run: RunOutput = agent.run("Share a 2 sentence horror story")
# print(run.content)

# Print the response in the terminal
agent.print_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story")

Usage

Set up your virtual environment

uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate

uv venv --python 3.12
.venv\Scripts\activate

Set your API key

export LITELLM_API_KEY=xxx

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U litellm[proxy] openai agno

Start the proxy server

litellm --model gpt-5-mini --host 127.0.0.1 --port 4000

Run Agent

python cookbook/11_models/litellm_openai/basic.py

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