IBM Image Agent Bytes

image_agent_bytes.py

"""
Ibm Image Agent Bytes
=====================

Cookbook example for `ibm/watsonx/image_agent_bytes.py`.
"""

from pathlib import Path

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.media import Image
from agno.models.ibm import WatsonX

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

agent = Agent(
    model=WatsonX(id="meta-llama/llama-3-2-11b-vision-instruct"),
    markdown=True,
)

image_path = Path(__file__).parent.joinpath("sample.jpg")

# Read the image file content as bytes
image_bytes = image_path.read_bytes()

agent.print_response(
    "Tell me about this image and give me the latest news about it.",
    images=[
        Image(content=image_bytes),
    ],
    stream=True,
)

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

if __name__ == "__main__":
    pass

Run the Example

Set up your virtual environment

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

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

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno ibm-watsonx-ai

Export environment variables

export IBM_WATSONX_API_KEY="your_ibm_watsonx_api_key_here"
export IBM_WATSONX_PROJECT_ID="your_ibm_watsonx_project_id_here"

$Env:IBM_WATSONX_API_KEY="your_ibm_watsonx_api_key_here"
$Env:IBM_WATSONX_PROJECT_ID="your_ibm_watsonx_project_id_here"

Add a sample image

Place a JPEG named sample.jpg in the same directory as image_agent_bytes.py.

Run the example

Save the code above as image_agent_bytes.py, then run:

python image_agent_bytes.py

Full source: cookbook/90_models/ibm/watsonx/image_agent_bytes.py

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