Griptape is a modular Python framework for building AI-powered applications that securely connect to your enterprise data and APIs. It offers developers the ability to maintain control and flexibility at every step.
- 🤖 Agents consist of a single Task.
- 🔄 Pipelines organize a sequence of Tasks so that the output from one Task may flow into the next.
- 🌐 Workflows configure Tasks to operate in parallel.
Tasks are the core building blocks within Structures, enabling interaction with Engines, Tools, and other Griptape components.
Tools provide capabilities for LLMs to interact with data and services. Griptape includes a variety of built-in Tools, and makes it easy to create custom Tools.
- 💬 Conversation Memory enables LLMs to retain and retrieve information across interactions.
- 🗃️ Task Memory keeps large or sensitive Task outputs off the prompt that is sent to the LLM.
- 📊 Meta Memory enables passing in additional metadata to the LLM, enhancing the context and relevance of the interaction.
Drivers facilitate interactions with external resources and services:
- 🗣️ Prompt Drivers manage textual interactions with LLMs.
- 🔢 Embedding Drivers generate vector embeddings from textual inputs.
- 💾 Vector Store Drivers manage the storage and retrieval of embeddings.
- 🎨 Image Generation Drivers create images from text descriptions.
- 🔎 Image Query Drivers query images from text queries.
- 💼 SQL Drivers interact with SQL databases.
- 🌐 Web Scraper Drivers extract information from web pages.
- 🧠 Conversation Memory Drivers manage the storage and retrieval of conversational data.
Engines wrap Drivers and provide use-case-specific functionality:
- 📊 RAG Engine is an abstraction for implementing modular Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
- 🛠️ Extraction Engines extract JSON or CSV data from unstructured text.
- 📝 Summary Engines generate summaries from textual content.
- 🖼️ Image Generation Engines generate images from textual descriptions.
- 🔎 Image Query Engines query images based on textual prompts.
- 📐 Rulesets steer LLM behavior with minimal prompt engineering.
- 🔄 Loaders load data from various sources.
- 🏺 Artifacts allow for passing data of different types between Griptape components.
- ✂️ Chunkers segment texts into manageable pieces for diverse text types.
- 🔢 Tokenizers count the number of tokens in a text to not exceed LLM token limits.
Please refer to Griptape Docs for:
- Getting started guides.
- Core concepts and design overviews.
- Examples.
- Contribution guidelines.
Please check out Griptape Trade School for free online courses.
First, install griptape:
pip install "griptape[all]" -U
Second, configure an OpenAI client by getting an API key and adding it to your environment as OPENAI_API_KEY. By default, Griptape uses OpenAI Chat Completions API to execute LLM prompts.
With Griptape, you can create Structures, such as Agents, Pipelines, and Workflows, composed of different types of Tasks. Let's build a simple creative Agent that dynamically uses three tools and moves the data around in Task Memory.
from griptape.structures import Agent
from griptape.tools import WebScraperTool, FileManagerTool, PromptSummaryTool
agent = Agent(
input="Load {{ args[0] }}, summarize it, and store it in a file called {{ args[1] }}.",
tools=[
WebScraperTool(off_prompt=True),
PromptSummaryTool(off_prompt=True),
FileManagerTool()
]
)
agent.run("https://griptape.ai", "griptape.txt")And here is the output:
[08/12/24 14:48:15] INFO ToolkitTask c90d263ec69046e8b30323c131ae4ba0
Input: Load https://griptape.ai, summarize it, and store it in a file called griptape.txt.
[08/12/24 14:48:16] INFO Subtask ebe23832cbe2464fb9ecde9fcee7c30f
Actions: [
{
"tag": "call_62kBnkswnk9Y6GH6kn1GIKk6",
"name": "WebScraperTool",
"path": "get_content",
"input": {
"values": {
"url": "https://griptape.ai"
}
}
}
]
[08/12/24 14:48:17] INFO Subtask ebe23832cbe2464fb9ecde9fcee7c30f
Response: Output of "WebScraperTool.get_content" was stored in memory with memory_name "TaskMemory" and artifact_namespace
"cecca28eb0c74bcd8c7119ed7f790c95"
[08/12/24 14:48:18] INFO Subtask dca04901436d49d2ade86cd6b4e1038a
Actions: [
{
"tag": "call_o9F1taIxHty0mDlWLcAjTAAu",
"name": "PromptSummaryTool",
"path": "summarize",
"input": {
"values": {
"summary": {
"memory_name": "TaskMemory",
"artifact_namespace": "cecca28eb0c74bcd8c7119ed7f790c95"
}
}
}
}
]
[08/12/24 14:48:21] INFO Subtask dca04901436d49d2ade86cd6b4e1038a
Response: Output of "PromptSummaryTool.summarize" was stored in memory with memory_name "TaskMemory" and artifact_namespace
"73765e32b8404e32927822250dc2ae8b"
[08/12/24 14:48:22] INFO Subtask c233853450fb4fd6a3e9c04c52b33bf6
Actions: [
{
"tag": "call_eKvIUIw45aRYKDBpT1gGKc9b",
"name": "FileManagerTool",
"path": "save_memory_artifacts_to_disk",
"input": {
"values": {
"dir_name": ".",
"file_name": "griptape.txt",
"memory_name": "TaskMemory",
"artifact_namespace": "73765e32b8404e32927822250dc2ae8b"
}
}
}
]
INFO Subtask c233853450fb4fd6a3e9c04c52b33bf6
Response: Successfully saved memory artifacts to disk
[08/12/24 14:48:23] INFO ToolkitTask c90d263ec69046e8b30323c131ae4ba0
Output: The content from https://griptape.ai has been summarized and stored in a file called `griptape.txt`.
During the run, the Griptape Agent loaded a webpage with a Tool, stored its full content in Task Memory, queried it to answer the original question, and finally saved the answer to a file.
The important thing to note here is that no matter how big the webpage is it can never blow up the prompt token limit because the full content of the page never goes back to the LLM. Additionally, no data from the subsequent subtasks were returned back to the prompt either. So, how does it work?
In the above example, we set off_prompt to True, which means that the LLM can never see the data it manipulates, but can send it to other Tools.
Important
This example uses Griptape's ToolkitTask, which requires a highly capable LLM to function correctly. By default, Griptape uses the OpenAiChatPromptDriver; for another powerful LLM try swapping to the AnthropicPromptDriver!
If you're using a less powerful LLM, consider using the ToolTask instead, as the ToolkitTask might not work properly or at all.
Check out our docs to learn more about how to use Griptape with other LLM providers like Anthropic, Claude, Hugging Face, and Azure.
Griptape is in constant development and its APIs and documentation are subject to change. Until we stabilize the API and release version 1.0.0, we will use minor versions (i.e., x.Y.z) to introduce features and breaking features, and patch versions (i.e., x.y.Z) for bug fixes.
Thank you for considering contributing to Griptape! Before you start, please read the following guidelines.
If you have identified a bug, want to propose a new feature, or have a question, please submit an issue through our public issue tracker. Before submitting a new issue, please check the existing issues to ensure it hasn't been reported or discussed before.
We welcome and encourage pull requests. To streamline the process, please follow these guidelines:
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Existing Issues: Please submit pull requests only for existing issues. If you want to work on new functionality or fix a bug that hasn't been addressed yet, please first submit an issue. This allows the Griptape team to internally process the request and provide a public response.
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Branch: Submit all pull requests to the
devbranch. This helps us manage changes and integrate them smoothly. -
Unit Tests: Ensure that your pull request passes all existing unit tests. Additionally, if you are introducing new code, please include new unit tests to validate its functionality.
Run make test/unit to execute the test suite locally.
- Documentation: Every pull request must include updates to documentation or explicitly explain why a documentation update is not required. Documentation is crucial for maintaining a comprehensive and user-friendly project.
Run make docs to build the documentation locally.
- Code Checks: Griptape a variety of tools to enforce code quality and style. Your code must pass all checks before it can be merged.
Run make check to run all code checks locally.
- Changelog: If your pull request introduces a notable change, please update the changelog.
Griptape's extensibility allows anyone to develop and distribute tools independently. With rare exceptions for Tools providing broadly applicable functionality, new Griptape Tools should be managed as their own projects and not submitted to the core framework. Pull requests for new tools (unless addressing an existing issue) will be closed.
The Griptape Tool Template provides the recommended structure, step-by-step instructions, basic automation, and usage examples for new Tools. In the Template, select Use this template then Create a new repository to begin a new Tool project.
Install all dependencies via Make:
make installOr install by calling Poetry directly:
poetry install --all-extras --with dev --with test --with docsConfigure pre-commit to ensure that your code is formatted correctly and passes all checks:
poetry run pre-commit installGriptape is available under the Apache 2.0 License.