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SQLAlchemy Sessions

SQLAlchemySession uses SQLAlchemy to provide a production-ready session implementation, allowing you to use any database supported by SQLAlchemy (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, etc.) for session storage.

Installation

SQLAlchemy sessions require the sqlalchemy extra:

pip install openai-agents[sqlalchemy]

Quick start

Using database URL

The simplest way to get started:

import asyncio
from agents import Agent, Runner
from agents.extensions.memory import SQLAlchemySession

async def main():
    agent = Agent("Assistant")

    # Create session using database URL
    session = SQLAlchemySession.from_url(
        "user-123",
        url="sqlite+aiosqlite:///:memory:",
        create_tables=True
    )

    result = await Runner.run(agent, "Hello", session=session)
    print(result.final_output)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Using existing engine

For applications with existing SQLAlchemy engines:

import asyncio
from agents import Agent, Runner
from agents.extensions.memory import SQLAlchemySession
from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import create_async_engine

async def main():
    # Create your database engine
    engine = create_async_engine("postgresql+asyncpg://user:pass@localhost/db")

    agent = Agent("Assistant")
    session = SQLAlchemySession(
        "user-456",
        engine=engine,
        create_tables=True
    )

    result = await Runner.run(agent, "Hello", session=session)
    print(result.final_output)

    # Clean up
    await engine.dispose()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

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