E-Book Title: Building Financial AI Agents with Phidata: A Practical Guide

E-Book Title: Building Financial AI Agents with Phidata: A Practical Guide

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • 1. Welcome & Introduction to AI Agents
  • 1. The Power of AI Agents in Finance
  • 1. Introduction to Phidata
  • 1. Why Phidata is Ideal for Finance
  • 1. Overview of the e-Book
• Part 1: Setting Up Your Development Environment
  • 1. Preparing Your System
  • 1. Creating a Project Folder
  • 1. Setting Up VS Code
  • 1. Creating a Virtual Environment
  • 1. Activating the Virtual Environment
  • 1. Creating requirements.txt
  • 1. Understanding the Libraries (Part 1)
  • 1. Understanding the Libraries (Part 2)
  • 1. Installing the Required Libraries
  • 1. Creating and Populating .env File
  • 1. Recapping Part 1
• Part 2: Implementing the Financial AI Agent
  • 1. Creating financial_agent.py
  • 1. Importing Necessary Libraries
  • 1. Creating the Web Search Agent (Part 1)
  • 1. Creating the Web Search Agent (Part 2)
  • 1. Code for the Web Search Agent
  • 1. Creating the Financial Agent (Part 1)
  • 1. Creating the Financial Agent (Part 2)
  • 1. Code for the Financial Agent
  • 1. Creating the Multi-Agent (Part 1)
  • 1. Creating the Multi-Agent (Part 2)
  • 1. Code for the Multi-Agent
  • 1. Testing the Multi-Agent (Part 1)
  • 1. Testing the Multi-Agent (Part 2)
  • 30 - 35. Deep Dive into YFinance Tool
  • 36 - 40. Deep Dive into DuckDuckGo Tool
  • 1. Troubleshooting Agent Implementation
  • 1. Code Snippet in financial_agent.py
  • 1. Recapping Part 2
• Part 3: Setting Up the Phidata Playground
  • 1. Creating playground.py
  • 1. Importing Libraries for Playground
  • 1. Setting Up the Phidata API Key
  • 1. Code Snippets for Importing Libraries and API Keys
  • 1. Recreating Web and Finance Agents
  • 1. Code Snippets for Recreating Agents
  • 1. Creating the Phidata Playground App
  • 1. Running the Playground App
  • 1. Complete Code Snippet of playground.py
  • 1. Running the playground.py
  • 1. Accessing the Phidata Dashboard
  • 1. Connecting to the Playground
  • 1. Interacting with the Agent through the Web Interface (Part 1)
  • 1. Interacting with the Agent through the Web Interface (Part 2)
  • 1. Requesting Stock Information
  • 1. Requesting Analyst Recommendations
  • 1. Requesting Latest News
  • 1. Understanding the Response Format
  • 1. Advanced Interactions and Prompts
  • 63 - 67. Troubleshooting Phidata Playground Setup
  • 1. Recapping Part 3
  • 1. Key Takeaways
• Part 4: Advanced Topics and Further Exploration
  • 1. Customizing Agent Instructions
  • 1. Integrating More Tools
  • 1. Experimenting with Different LLMs
  • 1. Monitoring and Logging
  • 74 - 80. Advanced Use Cases
  • 81-85. Extending the Agents with More Functionality
  • 86-90. Improving Agent Performance
  • 1. Security Considerations
  • 1. Best Practices for Development
  • 1. Exploring Phidata's Documentation
• Conclusion
  • 1. Summary of the e-Book
  • 1. The Future of AI Agents
  • 1. Further Learning Resources
  • 1. Call to Action
  • 1. Acknowledgments and Contact Information
  • 1. Appendix (Optional)
  • 1. About the Author

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Introduction

• Page 1: Welcome & Introduction to AI Agents
  • AI has revolutionized our world. From automated translation to image recognition, AI is everywhere. This book will introduce you to the exciting world of AI agents. AI agents are software entities that can perceive their environment, learn, and act autonomously.
  • AI agents go beyond simple tasks. They can make decisions based on data and adapt to changes. The goal is to create intelligent systems that can help us in various sectors, especially finance.
• Page 2: The Power of AI Agents in Finance
  • AI agents have many applications in finance, including automated trading, risk management, financial analysis, and customer service. Automated trading systems use AI to analyze market data and make trading decisions automatically. In risk management, AI can detect fraudulent transactions and assess risks more accurately.
  • AI also empowers financial professionals to make more informed, data-driven decisions. While these systems can present great advantages, there are also many challenges and opportunities in implementing these AI for financial purposes.
• Page 3: Introduction to Phidata
  • Phidata is an open-source platform designed for building, deploying, and monitoring agent systems. Phidata stands out with its flexibility, allowing you to choose different LLMs and integrate domain-specific information. It also allows the creation of complex workflows and supports various models from OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Azure, and more.
  • Phidata is not just a framework but also a way of thinking about AI agents. It provides tools to create robust and reliable AI solutions.
• Page 4: Why Phidata is Ideal for Finance
  • Phidata's structure aligns well with the needs of financial applications. It can handle diverse financial data sources, is flexible enough to handle domain specific information, and provides a way to build scalable financial AI solutions.
  • This book will guide you on how to leverage Phidata to create robust, reliable, and scalable financial AI solutions. By the end of this book, you will be equipped to develop your own financial AI agents.
• Page 5: Overview of the e-Book
  • This e-book will guide you step-by-step on how to build a financial AI agent using Phidata. We will cover the following main sections: development environment setup, agent implementation, playground integration, and advanced topics.
  • By the end of the book, you will know how to set up your environment, create and implement the agent, and deploy it. The final chapter contains advanced tips to further expand your capabilities with AI agents.

Part 1: Setting Up Your Development Environment

• Page 6: Preparing Your System
  • First, ensure Python and Conda are installed on your system. To check, use python --version and conda --version in your terminal. If not installed, download Python 3.12 from python.org and Anaconda or Miniconda from anaconda.com.
  • Choose the installer that matches your operating system and follow the installation instructions, keeping the default options. If you run into issues check the Python and Conda websites for troubleshooting tips.
• Page 7: Creating a Project Folder
  • Create a new project directory. You can use the terminal with mkdir phidata_financial_agent or create a new folder from your file explorer. This folder will contain all your project files.
  • It's essential to organize your project for easy management. You can name your project something meaningful, such as 'phidata_financial_agent', and create subfolders like 'src', 'data', and 'notebooks'.
• Page 8: Setting Up VS Code
  • Open your project folder in VS Code by clicking "File" -> "Open Folder...". In VS Code, you can enhance productivity by setting up your workspace and installing useful extensions.
  • Install the following Python-related extensions: Python, Pylance, Black formatter, and GitLens. These tools will greatly improve your experience of developing code using VS Code.
  • VS Code has an integrated terminal which you can use by pressing Ctrl + `. This is useful for running commands and testing your code.
• Page 9: Creating a Virtual Environment
  • To create a virtual environment, open the terminal inside VS Code and use the command conda create -p venv python=3.12. This creates a virtual environment named venv in your project folder, using Python 3.12.
  • Virtual environments are essential because they isolate dependencies for different projects. This ensures that different projects can work seamlessly without causing conflicts.
• Page 10: Activating the Virtual Environment
  • To activate the virtual environment, use the command conda activate venv. You will notice that your terminal will have the virtual environment name (venv) at the start of the line.
  • Activating the virtual environment is a crucial step before installing any Python libraries as it ensures that you install them into your project specific virtual environment.
• Page 11: Creating requirements.txt
  • Create a file named requirements.txt in the project’s root directory. Add each dependency in a new line. This file lists all the required Python packages that your project needs.
  • Add the following list of libraries into requirements.txt:
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  • phidata
    python-dotenv
    yfinance
    duckduckgo-search
    fastapi
    uvicorn
    groq

• Page 12: Understanding the Libraries (Part 1)
  • phidata: The core library of this project. Phidata is used for building, deploying, and monitoring AI agent systems.
  • python-dotenv: This library is used for reading key-value pairs from .env files. This is where API keys and sensitive information will be stored.
  • yfinance: This library allows you to fetch financial market data from Yahoo Finance which will be used by the financial AI agent.
• Page 13: Understanding the Libraries (Part 2)
  • duckduckgo-search: Used for fetching search results from DuckDuckGo, which will be useful for the AI agent to look for new information and expand its knowledge.
  • fastapi and uvicorn: These libraries are used together to build web services and the playground app. They provide the necessary framework to build a REST API and run it using a server.
  • groq: This library is used to interact with the Groq LLM. It is used as an AI model for the agent.
• Page 14: Installing the Required Libraries
  • To install all the libraries listed in the requirements.txt file, use the command pip install -r requirements.txt. This will install all necessary libraries in the active virtual environment.
  • If any errors occur during the installation, you should investigate the errors to resolve and retry. Make sure that your network connection is good before trying again.
  • After the installation you can check if the libraries are installed using pip list command.
• Page 15: Creating and Populating .env File
  • Create a file named .env in your project’s root directory. This is where you will store sensitive information such as API keys. Never commit this file to version control.
  • Add your Phidata API key and Groq API key into this file as follows:

  • PHIDATA_API_KEY=your_phidata_api_key
    GROQ_API_KEY=your_groq_api_key

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  • You can retrieve the API keys from Phidata and Groq websites after creating accounts. These API keys will be essential for the AI agents to function.
• Page 16: Recapping Part 1
  • In this part, we have set up Python, Conda, VS Code, created a virtual environment, and created the requirements.txt and .env files. All these steps are crucial for properly preparing your environment.
  • We have laid the groundwork for the next stage where you will create the actual AI agents.
  • If you have completed all the steps in part one, you will have successfully prepared your system for the next step.

Part 2: Implementing the Financial AI Agent

• Page 17: Creating financial_agent.py
  • Create a file named financial_agent.py in your project’s root directory. This file will contain all the code for creating and setting up your financial AI agent.
  • This file will be structured as follows: first, import necessary libraries, then create the three main agents (web search, financial, and multi-agent) and the code to run them.
• Page 18: Importing Necessary Libraries
  • Add the following import statements at the beginning of financial_agent.py:

  • from phi.agent import Agent
    from phi.llm.groq import Groq
    from phi.tools.duckduckgo import DuckDuckGo
    from phi.tools.yfinance import YFinance

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  • Each import statement is needed for a specific functionality: the Agent class for creating agents, Groq for the AI model, DuckDuckGo for web searches and YFinance for financial data.
• Page 19: Creating the Web Search Agent (Part 1)
  • Start creating the web_search_agent using web_search_agent = Agent(...). This is how you define an AI agent.
  • Add the name parameter to give it a name: name="웹 검색 에이전트". This parameter will help you to easily identify the agent and its purpose.
  • Next, set the role parameter to define its function: role="웹에서 정보를 검색합니다". This clarifies the specific function of this agent.
• Page 20: Creating the Web Search Agent (Part 2)
  • The next parameter to set is the model: model=Groq(model="llama2-70b-4096"). This tells the agent which AI model to use. Here we are using a Groq LLM model called llama2-70b-4096.
  • Then, define the tools this agent can use: tools=[DuckDuckGo()]. We are using the DuckDuckGo tool to enable web searches.
  • Lastly, let’s set the following parameters for the agent’s output: instructions="항상 출처를 포함하세요", show_tool_calls=True, and markdown=True. This configures the agent to include sources, show tool calls, and use markdown for formatting.
• Page 21: Code for the Web Search Agent
  • Here is the complete code snippet for the web_search_agent:

  • web_search_agent = Agent(
        name="웹 검색 에이전트",
        role="웹에서 정보를 검색합니다",
        model=Groq(model="llama2-70b-4096"),
        tools=[DuckDuckGo()],
        instructions="항상 출처를 포함하세요",
        show_tool_calls=True,
        markdown=True
    )

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  • The parameters are as follows: name is the agent's name, role defines its function, model specifies the LLM, tools defines the search engine, instructions gives guidelines, show_tool_calls makes the agent verbose and markdown formats the response.
• Page 22: Creating the Financial Agent (Part 1)
  • Now, start creating the finance_agent using finance_agent = Agent(...). This will define the agent that will handle all the financial related information.
  • As with the previous agent, we will first set the name parameter to identify this agent: name="금융 AI 에이전트".
  • Then set the AI model for this agent: model=Groq(model="llama2-70b-4096"), using the same model as the web search agent.
• Page 23: Creating the Financial Agent (Part 2)
  • Next, we define the tools for the financial agent to use: tools=[YFinance(...)]. Here, we are using the YFinance tool to extract financial data.
  • We also enable different options for this tool: analyze_recommendation=True, stock_fundamentals=True, technical_indicators=True, and company_news=True. This allows the agent to access various types of data.
  • Finally, we use instructions="데이터를 표로 표시하세요" to instruct the agent to format the response in a table.
• Page 24: Code for the Financial Agent
  • Here is the full code snippet for the finance_agent:*The name defines the agent's id, the model sets the LLM to use, the tools sets the YFinance tool with different parameters to get various information and lastly the instructions parameter sets the format for the response.

  • finance_agent = Agent(
        name="금융 AI 에이전트",
        model=Groq(model="llama2-70b-4096"),
        tools=[YFinance(
            analyze_recommendation=True,
            stock_fundamentals=True,
            technical_indicators=True,
            company_news=True
        )],
        instructions="데이터를 표로 표시하세요",
        show_tool_calls=True,
        markdown=True
    )

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• Page 25: Creating the Multi-Agent (Part 1)
  • A multi-agent combines multiple different agents into a single agent. Here we are going to combine the web search agent and the finance agent.
  • Start by defining the multi_agent using multi_agent = Agent(...). We are defining a multi-agent that will interact with two other agents.
  • We are also setting the team parameter: team=[web_search_agent, finance_agent], which tells this agent to use the other two agents to perform a task.
• Page 26: Creating the Multi-Agent (Part 2)
  • Set the instructions for the multi-agent: instructions="항상 출처를 포함하고 데이터를 표로 표시하세요". This will tell the multi agent to return responses that include sources and displays information in tables.
  • Similar to other agents, we set show_tool_calls=True and markdown=True. This will give a verbose output and properly format the response.
  • The multi-agent’s instructions will guide how the final response is structured.
• Page 27: Code for the Multi-Agent
  • The full code for setting up the multi_agent is as follows:

  • multi_agent = Agent(
        team=[web_search_agent, finance_agent],
        instructions="항상 출처를 포함하고 데이터를 표로 표시하세요",
        show_tool_calls=True,
        markdown=True
    )

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  • The team parameter consists of the two agents created previously, and the other parameters are for formatting the response. This completes the definition of the multi-agent.
• Page 28: Testing the Multi-Agent (Part 1)
  • Now, to test the agent you should run multi_agent.print_response(...) function. This function will test the agent and display the response.
  • We can pass a prompt for the agent to work on. For this example we will pass: "NVIDIA에 대한 애널리스트 추천을 요약하고 최신 뉴스를 공유해주세요".
• Page 29: Testing the Multi-Agent (Part 2)
  • Here is the full code snippet:

  • response = multi_agent.print_response( "NVIDIA에 대한 애널리스트 추천을 요약하고 최신 뉴스를 공유해주세요", stream=True )

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  • The stream=True parameter allows the agent to stream the response as it is being generated.
  • The multi-agent will use the web search agent and the financial agent and combine their responses to provide the information requested.
• Page 30 - 35: Deep Dive into YFinance Tool
  * analyze_recommendation=True: This option retrieves analyst recommendations for a stock. It includes buy, sell, and hold ratings and also the price target.
  * stock_fundamentals=True: This option gets the company's fundamentals, including information about its business, financial statements like the balance sheet and cash flow.
  * technical_indicators=True: This retrieves various technical indicators for a specific stock that is useful for technical analysis of the stock price movement.
  * company_news=True: This option retrieves the latest news articles about the company from various news agencies.
• Page 36 - 40: Deep Dive into DuckDuckGo Tool
  * DuckDuckGo search results structure includes the search query, the result title, URL, and the text snippet. This will be available in a JSON format.
  * You can parse and process these results by using techniques like string manipulations, or regular expressions to extract only the data you need.
  * You can refine your search queries by including keywords, using quotes for exact match, and excluding irrelevant terms to get better results.
  * The DuckDuckGo search tool enables multi-agents to extend their capabilities and access additional information, and use that to create better responses.
• Page 41: Troubleshooting Agent Implementation
  • Common issues include missing libraries, incorrect API keys, or incorrect usage of the Agent class. Double-check the requirements.txt file, .env file, and the code.
  • If the agent is not functioning as you expect, use the built-in terminal to debug the agent.
  • You can add print() statements into the code to display intermediate outputs which can help debug any issue you might run into.
• Page 42: Code Snippet in financial_agent.py
  • Here is the full code snippet for financial_agent.py:

  • from phi.agent import Agent
    from phi.llm.groq import Groq
    from phi.tools.duckduckgo import DuckDuckGo
    from phi.tools.yfinance import YFinance
    
    web_search_agent = Agent(
        name="웹 검색 에이전트",
        role="웹에서 정보를 검색합니다",
        model=Groq(model="llama2-70b-4096"),
        tools=[DuckDuckGo()],
        instructions="항상 출처를 포함하세요",
        show_tool_calls=True,
        markdown=True
    )
    
    finance_agent = Agent(
        name="금융 AI 에이전트",
        model=Groq(model="llama2-70b-4096"),
        tools=[YFinance(
            analyze_recommendation=True,
            stock_fundamentals=True,
            technical_indicators=True,
            company_news=True
        )],
        instructions="데이터를 표로 표시하세요",
        show_tool_calls=True,
        markdown=True
    )
    
    multi_agent = Agent(
        team=[web_search_agent, finance_agent],
        instructions="항상 출처를 포함하고 데이터를 표로 표시하세요",
        show_tool_calls=True,
        markdown=True
    )
    
    response = multi_agent.print_response(
        "NVIDIA에 대한 애널리스트 추천을 요약하고 최신 뉴스를 공유해주세요",
        stream=True
    )

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• Page 43: Recapping Part 2
  • In this section, you have successfully created the web search agent, the finance agent, and the multi-agent using all the code snippets mentioned above. You have also tested them out using print_response.
  • You have learnt to understand the various parameters that is required to create an AI agent.
  • The next part of the book will guide you on setting up the Playground to easily interact with the AI agents you have created.

Part 3: Setting Up the Phidata Playground

• Page 44: Creating playground.py
  • Create a new file named playground.py in the root of your project. This file will host the web app for the Phidata playground.
  • This file will be used to create a web interface to directly interact with the agents we have created previously.
• Page 45: Importing Libraries for Playground
  • Add the following import statements to the playground.py file:

  • import os
    from phi.playground import playground, serve_playground
    from phi.agent import Agent
    from phi.llm.groq import Groq
    from phi.tools.duckduckgo import DuckDuckGo
    from phi.tools.yfinance import YFinance

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  • The new imports are os which is used for environment variables and playground and serve_playground functions that are provided by the phi.playground package.
• Page 46: Setting Up the Phidata API Key
  • Retrieve the Phidata API Key from the environment variable using the following code snippet:

  • PHI_API_KEY = os.getenv("PHIDATA_API_KEY")

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  • This will fetch your API key that you have stored in the .env file.
• Page 47: Code Snippets for Importing Libraries and API Keys
  • Here is the complete code snippet:

  • import os
    from phi.playground import playground, serve_playground
    from phi.agent import Agent
    from phi.llm.groq import Groq
    from phi.tools.duckduckgo import DuckDuckGo
    from phi.tools.yfinance import YFinance
    
    PHI_API_KEY = os.getenv("PHIDATA_API_KEY")

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  • This code is the foundation for setting up the web interface, and it is essential that your PHI_API_KEY variable is set properly using the .env file.
• Page 48: Recreating Web and Finance Agents
  • Recreate the web search agent and the finance agent in playground.py. Make sure that the agent definitions are exactly the same as in the financial_agent.py file.
  • This is needed because the playground requires a new definition of the agents.
• Page 49: Code Snippets for Recreating Agents
  • Here is the code snippet for creating the web search and finance agent:

  web_search_agent = Agent(
      name="웹 검색 에이전트",
      role="웹에서 정보를 검색합니다",
      model=Groq(model="llama2-70b-4096"),
      tools=[DuckDuckGo()],
      instructions="항상 출처를 포함하세요",
      show_tool_calls=True,
      markdown=True
  )
  
  finance_agent = Agent(
      name="금융 AI 에이전트",
      model=Groq(model="llama2-70b-4096"),
      tools=[YFinance(
          analyze_recommendation=True,
          stock_fundamentals=True,
          technical_indicators=True,
          company_news=True
      )],
      instructions="데이터를 표로 표시하세요",
      show_tool_calls=True,
      markdown=True
  )

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  • The code is a direct replica of the code that you have previously written in financial_agent.py.
• Page 50: Creating the Phidata Playground App
  • To create the Phidata Playground application, use the following code snippet:

  • app = playground( agents=[finance_agent, web_search_agent] ).get_app()

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  • This line creates a playground application using the finance_agent and web_search_agent and gets the FastAPI app using get_app() method.
• Page 51: Running the Playground App
  • To run the playground application, add the following conditional block:

  • if __name__ == "__main__":
        serve_playground(app, reload=True)

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  • This code will run the app on your localhost. The reload=True parameter enables the app to auto-reload when any code changes are made.
• Page 52: Complete Code Snippet of playground.py
  • Here is the full code snippet of playground.py:

  import os
  from phi.playground import playground, serve_playground
  from phi.agent import Agent
  from phi.llm.groq import Groq
  from phi.tools.duckduckgo import DuckDuckGo
  from phi.tools.yfinance import YFinance
  
  PHI_API_KEY = os.getenv("PHIDATA_API_KEY")
  
  web_search_agent = Agent(
      name="웹 검색 에이전트",
      role="웹에서 정보를 검색합니다",
      model=Groq(model="llama2-70b-4096"),
      tools=[DuckDuckGo()],
      instructions="항상 출처를 포함하세요",
      show_tool_calls=True,
      markdown=True
  )
  
  finance_agent = Agent(
      name="금융 AI 에이전트",
      model=Groq(model="llama2-70b-4096"),
      tools=[YFinance(
          analyze_recommendation=True,
          stock_fundamentals=True,
          technical_indicators=True,
          company_news=True
      )],
      instructions="데이터를 표로 표시하세요",
      show_tool_calls=True,
      markdown=True
  )
  
  app = playground( agents=[finance_agent, web_search_agent] ).get_app()
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
      serve_playground(app, reload=True)

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• Page 53: Running the playground.py
  • To run your playground application, open the terminal and run the following command: python playground.py.
  • This will start the web application on localhost:7777 or any available port. The output on your terminal will indicate the port used.
• Page 54: Accessing the Phidata Dashboard
  • Go to the Phidata platform in your web browser. Login using your Phidata account that you had created previously.
  • If you do not have a Phidata account you can create a new account on the platform or use your Google account. You might have to obtain an API key during the registration.
• Page 55: Connecting to the Playground
  • In the Phidata dashboard, locate the "Playgrounds" section, and add your local endpoint. It should be running on localhost:7777
  • After adding the local endpoint, your local playground should now be visible, and you can interact with your financial AI agents using the UI.
• Page 56: Interacting with the Agent through the Web Interface (Part 1)
  • Once you have connected your local endpoint to the Phidata playground, you will see the UI which includes an input field and a space to display the response.
  • The main component in the UI is a text input box where you will type the query, and an area to show the response.
  • The agents that you have added should be present on the UI. You can select each agent to interact with.
• Page 57: Interacting with the Agent through the Web Interface (Part 2)
  • You can type your prompts directly in the input box. Try asking questions like "what is Tesla stock price" or "what is apple’s stock analyst rating".
  • You can also try multi-agent prompts that include the keyword "NVIDIA".
  • The agents will respond to the prompt and display the response in the window with proper formatting.
• Page 58: Requesting Stock Information
  • To get information about a stock, enter a prompt like, "Get me information on Tesla stock" in the input field.
  • The financial AI agent will provide a summary of the current stock price, trading volume, and other relevant data related to the company.
• Page 59: Requesting Analyst Recommendations
  • Ask the agent to summarize analyst recommendations by using the prompt "Summarize analyst recommendations for Apple".
  • The agent will provide information on various analyst ratings, target price, and their rationale for such recommendations, providing an insight into the future performance of the stock.
• Page 60: Requesting Latest News
  • Ask the agent for latest news regarding a particular company by using the prompt "Share the latest news on Microsoft".
  • The agent will fetch the latest news from various sources and display them in markdown format including links to each news article.
• Page 61: Understanding the Response Format
  • The response format from the agents is formatted using markdown. This is why the markdown=True is included in all the agent's definition.
  • When requesting data that requires a lot of information, the agent will return a table using markdown. The table format helps you to understand the data more clearly.
  • The response from the multi-agent is a combination of output from web search and financial agent with source links and other information formatted using markdown.
• Page 62: Advanced Interactions and Prompts
  • You can also try using more complex prompts, like “Compare Google’s current stock price with its average price over the last 3 months”.
  • You can also try asking questions about multiple stocks in the same prompt to get information from multiple sources.
  • Experiment with different prompts and different parameters in your prompts to understand the full capabilities of your AI agents.
• Page 63 - 67: Troubleshooting Phidata Playground Setup
  * One common problem is the connection issue. If you are having trouble connecting make sure that your localhost is properly added in the Phidata dashboard. Check your local web server if it is properly started in the terminal using the command python playground.py
  * Make sure that the PHI_API_KEY is properly set in your .env file. If you do not have a Phidata API key, you will need to obtain one from the Phidata website.
  * If you have any library issues, re-run the install command using pip install -r requirements.txt.

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• Page 68: Recapping Part 3
  • In this part, you have learned how to set up the Phidata playground using the playground.py file and interact with your agents through the web interface.
  • You learned to copy the agent definitions from the financial_agent.py and then create a web server to interact with the agents, and connect the web server with the Phidata playground.
  • You have successfully tested various types of prompts and are able to view responses from single agent and multi-agents.
• Page 69: Key Takeaways
  • You can now interact with your financial AI agents using the web UI by adding it to the Phidata dashboard.
  • You have successfully implemented a basic user interface to interact with the financial AI agents.
  • You can now query your agents using different parameters and prompts and get different kinds of responses.

Part 4: Advanced Topics and Further Exploration

• Page 70: Customizing Agent Instructions
  • The instructions parameter is essential for controlling the behavior and the output format of the AI agents. You can create very specific instructions to get exactly the output you need.
  • For example, you can specify how the agent should summarize the results, the length of the summary, specific formatting styles, or include specific disclaimers.
• Page 71: Integrating More Tools
  • Phidata allows you to integrate various different tools into your agents. The tools can be anything from searching specific databases to interacting with external APIs.
  • You can develop custom tools using Python classes, and then integrate them into your AI agents to access specific types of data. This flexibility is important if you have proprietary data sources.
• Page 72: Experimenting with Different LLMs
  • Phidata supports integration of various different LLMs. Experiment with different models available in Groq and other providers like OpenAI and Azure.
  • You can check the Phidata documentation to see how to configure the agents to use different models, and then compare their performance with the same prompt and input to determine which is suitable for your particular application.
• Page 73: Monitoring and Logging
  • To monitor the agent's performance, set up logging to track the agent's activities, response time, and accuracy. This will help you identify issues and optimize agent behavior.
  • Phidata allows you to integrate with various logging systems. You can store your logs in cloud based solutions, or save them locally for your debugging purposes.
• Page 74 - 80: Advanced Use Cases
  • Building an agent to predict stock price: You can expand the financial agent’s functionality to include time series analysis and prediction using tools like Prophet. You would need to train a model that gives price predictions based on past price data and news sentiment analysis.
  • Building an agent to recommend optimal investment portfolio: Use the agent to generate ideal investment portfolios based on an investor's risk profile and financial goals. You can integrate this feature by developing a custom tool that takes in investor specific parameters.
  • Building an agent to keep track of current events and its effect on the financial market: This agent should combine data from current events with financial news to understand the impact of recent developments in the market. You can use a tool to access reliable news sources.
  • Building an agent to assist with trading: You can integrate the AI agents in trading applications by creating functionality that takes in real time stock data, analysis, and makes intelligent decision based on a strategy.
  • Exploring custom tools for a more personalized experience: You can develop very specific and custom tools that can be used by the agents to provide more personal and tailored response. This is useful if you have custom data sources.
• Page 81-85: Extending the Agents with More Functionality
  • How to add a custom tool that gives information based on an API: You can create a Python class that makes HTTP requests to your API endpoint and provide data to the agent. This is essential to build agents that integrate with proprietary data.
  • How to integrate an external database into your agent: You can use external database connectors to interact with SQL or NoSQL databases, and retrieve data using SQL queries. You can write a custom tool to query a database.
  • Explanation on data caching strategy for speed and efficiency: If you query an external data source frequently, implement caching strategy using libraries like redis or memcached. This will improve the speed of your agents and reduce the number of API calls.
  • Usage of external libraries for more complex computations: You can use libraries like numpy, scipy and pandas to perform complex computation that might be required by the agents.
  • How to build an agent that gives you real time information on the market: Using web sockets to listen for real time price feed from financial institutions is required to implement real time information of the market. This can be used for building trading bots.
• Page 86-90: Improving Agent Performance
  • Techniques for optimizing agent performance: Improve performance using techniques like prompt engineering, fine-tuning your models for better performance.
  • Fine-tuning the model for more accurate results: Fine-tuning a model using a dataset specific to your field will improve the performance for specific prompts and tasks.
  • Improving the way how agents take decision: You can modify your agents so that it has access to more information and context so that it takes a better decision. This will involve a complex setup that combines external tools and models.
  • Explanation on best practices when implementing the agent: Follow best practices by setting up the code in a way that is modular, and test your code frequently.
  • Strategies for improving response time, and throughput: Use caching strategies and faster hardware to improve the response time of your agents.
• Page 91: Security Considerations
  • Protect your API keys using .env files and never include them directly in your code. Use strong passwords and enable multifactor authentication.
  • Handle sensitive financial data with utmost care and follow best practices for data security and encryption.
  • Validate any user inputs thoroughly to protect your agents against malicious input and prevent any potential injection attacks.
• Page 92: Best Practices for Development
  • Keep your project well-structured with clear folder and file naming conventions for easy maintainability.
  • Write clean and well-commented code so that it is easy to read and debug.
  • Use version control tools like Git for tracking and managing the changes in your code.
• Page 93: Exploring Phidata's Documentation
  • Explore the Phidata official documentation, available on the Phidata website. The documentation includes detailed information on various features and API calls.
  • Stay up-to-date by checking the documentation regularly for new features and important updates about the Phidata framework.

Conclusion

• Page 94: Summary of the e-Book
  • We have covered how to set up the environment, build AI agents, and interact with them using the web interface.
  • You have successfully completed all the main parts of the book and learnt how to implement all the necessary pieces to build your own financial AI agents.
  • You now have the knowledge and tools to further explore and experiment with building AI agents using the Phidata framework.
• Page 95: The Future of AI Agents
  • AI agents are developing rapidly and are becoming more sophisticated. The future will see an increase in the number of AI agents performing tasks and also acting autonomously.
  • AI will be a driving force of innovation across various industries including the financial sector and other areas of technology.
  • There will be newer challenges and ethical concerns about deploying highly autonomous agents.
• Page 96: Further Learning Resources
  • There are various online courses from websites like Coursera, Udemy, and edX that you can take to further expand your understanding of AI and agent development.
  • The internet is also full of various tutorials that will help you in learning different aspects of AI and Python.
  • There are various books and articles available online to further expand your knowledge of AI and related fields.
• Page 97: Call to Action
  • We encourage you to keep on learning and experimenting with building AI agents using Phidata.
  • Keep exploring new possibilities by combining the tools you have learnt in this ebook.
  • Start building your own new AI agents for your own specific use cases.
• Page 98: Acknowledgments and Contact Information
  • The development of this ebook has relied heavily on the official Phidata documentation. Thank you to the Phidata community for developing this awesome technology.
  • If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact the author using example@email.com.
• Page 99: Appendix (Optional)
  • This appendix contains a glossary of terms that were used in this book to help further understand their definitions.
  • This section also includes a quick reference guide for various important parameters used in the book, to quickly find any parameter that you are looking for.
• Page 100: About the Author
  • The author has been a long time enthusiast of Artificial Intelligence and how it can be used to improve human lives.
  • The author’s current interests are in the fields of AI, LLMs and their real world applications.

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• Page 68: Recapping Part 3
  • In this part, you have learned how to set up the Phidata playground using the playground.py file and interact with your agents through the web interface.
  • You learned to copy the agent definitions from the financial_agent.py and then create a web server to interact with the agents, and connect the web server with the Phidata playground.
  • You have successfully tested various types of prompts and are able to view responses from single agent and multi-agents.
• Page 69: Key Takeaways
  • You can now interact with your financial AI agents using the web UI by adding it to the Phidata dashboard.
  • You have successfully implemented a basic user interface to interact with the financial AI agents.
  • You can now query your agents using different parameters and prompts and get different kinds of responses.

Part 4: Advanced Topics and Further Exploration

• Page 70: Customizing Agent Instructions
  • The instructions parameter is essential for controlling the behavior and the output format of the AI agents. You can create very specific instructions to get exactly the output you need.
  • For example, you can specify how the agent should summarize the results, the length of the summary, specific formatting styles, or include specific disclaimers.
• Page 71: Integrating More Tools
  • Phidata allows you to integrate various different tools into your agents. The tools can be anything from searching specific databases to interacting with external APIs.
  • You can develop custom tools using Python classes, and then integrate them into your AI agents to access specific types of data. This flexibility is important if you have proprietary data sources.
• Page 72: Experimenting with Different LLMs
  • Phidata supports integration of various different LLMs. Experiment with different models available in Groq and other providers like OpenAI and Azure.
  • You can check the Phidata documentation to see how to configure the agents to use different models, and then compare their performance with the same prompt and input to determine which is suitable for your particular application.
• Page 73: Monitoring and Logging
  • To monitor the agent's performance, set up logging to track the agent's activities, response time, and accuracy. This will help you identify issues and optimize agent behavior.
  • Phidata allows you to integrate with various logging systems. You can store your logs in cloud based solutions, or save them locally for your debugging purposes.
• Page 74 - 80: Advanced Use Cases
  • Building an agent to predict stock price: You can expand the financial agent’s functionality to include time series analysis and prediction using tools like Prophet. You would need to train a model that gives price predictions based on past price data and news sentiment analysis.
  • Building an agent to recommend optimal investment portfolio: Use the agent to generate ideal investment portfolios based on an investor's risk profile and financial goals. You can integrate this feature by developing a custom tool that takes in investor specific parameters.
  • Building an agent to keep track of current events and its effect on the financial market: This agent should combine data from current events with financial news to understand the impact of recent developments in the market. You can use a tool to access reliable news sources.
  • Building an agent to assist with trading: You can integrate the AI agents in trading applications by creating functionality that takes in real time stock data, analysis, and makes intelligent decision based on a strategy.
  • Exploring custom tools for a more personalized experience: You can develop very specific and custom tools that can be used by the agents to provide more personal and tailored response. This is useful if you have custom data sources.
• Page 81-85: Extending the Agents with More Functionality
  • How to add a custom tool that gives information based on an API: You can create a Python class that makes HTTP requests to your API endpoint and provide data to the agent. This is essential to build agents that integrate with proprietary data.
  • How to integrate an external database into your agent: You can use external database connectors to interact with SQL or NoSQL databases, and retrieve data using SQL queries. You can write a custom tool to query a database.
  • Explanation on data caching strategy for speed and efficiency: If you query an external data source frequently, implement caching strategy using libraries like redis or memcached. This will improve the speed of your agents and reduce the number of API calls.
  • Usage of external libraries for more complex computations: You can use libraries like numpy, scipy and pandas to perform complex computation that might be required by the agents.
  • How to build an agent that gives you real time information on the market: Using web sockets to listen for real time price feed from financial institutions is required to implement real time information of the market. This can be used for building trading bots.
• Page 86-90: Improving Agent Performance
  • Techniques for optimizing agent performance: Improve performance using techniques like prompt engineering, fine-tuning your models for better performance.
  • Fine-tuning the model for more accurate results: Fine-tuning a model using a dataset specific to your field will improve the performance for specific prompts and tasks.
  • Improving the way how agents take decision: You can modify your agents so that it has access to more information and context so that it takes a better decision. This will involve a complex setup that combines external tools and models.
  • Explanation on best practices when implementing the agent: Follow best practices by setting up the code in a way that is modular, and test your code frequently.
  • Strategies for improving response time, and throughput: Use caching strategies and faster hardware to improve the response time of your agents.
• Page 91: Security Considerations
  • Protect your API keys using .env files and never include them directly in your code. Use strong passwords and enable multifactor authentication.
  • Handle sensitive financial data with utmost care and follow best practices for data security and encryption.
  • Validate any user inputs thoroughly to protect your agents against malicious input and prevent any potential injection attacks.
• Page 92: Best Practices for Development
  • Keep your project well-structured with clear folder and file naming conventions for easy maintainability.
  • Write clean and well-commented code so that it is easy to read and debug.
  • Use version control tools like Git for tracking and managing the changes in your code.
• Page 93: Exploring Phidata's Documentation
  • Explore the Phidata official documentation, available on the Phidata website. The documentation includes detailed information on various features and API calls.
  • Stay up-to-date by checking the documentation regularly for new features and important updates about the Phidata framework.

Conclusion

• Page 94: Summary of the e-Book
  • We have covered how to set up the environment, build AI agents, and interact with them using the web interface.
  • You have successfully completed all the main parts of the book and learnt how to implement all the necessary pieces to build your own financial AI agents.
  • You now have the knowledge and tools to further explore and experiment with building AI agents using the Phidata framework.
• Page 95: The Future of AI Agents
  • AI agents are developing rapidly and are becoming more sophisticated. The future will see an increase in the number of AI agents performing tasks and also acting autonomously.
  • AI will be a driving force of innovation across various industries including the financial sector and other areas of technology.
  • There will be newer challenges and ethical concerns about deploying highly autonomous agents.
• Page 96: Further Learning Resources
  • There are various online courses from websites like Coursera, Udemy, and edX that you can take to further expand your understanding of AI and agent development.
  • The internet is also full of various tutorials that will help you in learning different aspects of AI and Python.
  • There are various books and articles available online to further expand your knowledge of AI and related fields.
• Page 97: Call to Action
  • We encourage you to keep on learning and experimenting with building AI agents using Phidata.
  • Keep exploring new possibilities by combining the tools you have learnt in this ebook.
  • Start building your own new AI agents for your own specific use cases.
• Page 98: Acknowledgments and Contact Information
  • The development of this ebook has relied heavily on the official Phidata documentation. Thank you to the Phidata community for developing this awesome technology.
  • If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact the author using example@email.com.
• Page 99: Appendix (Optional)
  • This appendix contains a glossary of terms that were used in this book to help further understand their definitions.
  • This section also includes a quick reference guide for various important parameters used in the book, to quickly find any parameter that you are looking for.
• Page 100: About the Author
  • The author has been a long time enthusiast of Artificial Intelligence and how it can be used to improve human lives.
  • The author’s current interests are in the fields of AI, LLMs and their real world applications.

(End of E-Book Content)

This structure provides a complete 100-page text-based e-book, covering all the necessary concepts and coding steps to build financial AI agents with Phidata. It provides practical examples and guidelines to the reader.

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