Get Started

This guide will walk you through everything you need to get started with the Alith. Whether you’re building intelligent agents, integrating tools, or experimenting with language models, Alith provides a seamless experience across multiple programming languages. Below, you’ll find installation instructions, quick start guides, and examples for Rust, Python, and Node.js.

Rust

Install Dependency

Install Alith Dependency


cargo add alith --git https://github.com/0xLazAI/alith

Install Other Dependencies like tokio, async_trait, schemars, serde and anyhow.


cargo add tokio async_trait schemars serde anyhow

Write the Code


use alith::{Agent, LLM};
 
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), anyhow::Error> {
    let model = LLM::from_model_name("gpt-4")?;
    let agent = Agent::new("simple agent", model, vec![])
        .preamble("You are a comedian here to entertain the user using humour and jokes.");
 
    let response = agent.prompt("Entertain me!").await?;
 
    println!("{}", response);
 
    Ok(())
}

Model Provider Settings

We can configure different AI model providers, here we take the OpenAI model as th example.

Unix


export OPENAI_API_KEY=<your API key>

Windows


$env:OPENAI_API_KEY = "<your API key>"

Run the Code


cargo run --release

Python

Install Dependency

Install Alith Dependency


python3 -m pip install alith
# Or use `pip install alith` direclty.

Write the Code


from alith import Agent
 
agent = Agent(
    name="A dummy Agent",
    model="gpt-4",
    preamble="You are a comedian here to entertain the user using humour and jokes.",
)
print(agent.prompt("Entertain me!"))

Model Provider Settings

We can configure different AI model providers, here we take the OpenAI model as th example.

Unix


export OPENAI_API_KEY=<your API key>

Windows


$env:OPENAI_API_KEY = "<your API key>"

Run the Code


python3 main.py

Node.js

Install Dependency

Install Alith Dependency


npm install alith
# Or use pnpm `pnpm install alith`
# Or use yarn `yarn install alith`

Write the Code


import { Agent } from "alith";
 
const agent = new Agent({
  name: "A dummy Agent",
  model: "gpt-4",
  preamble:
    "You are a comedian here to entertain the user using humour and jokes.",
});
console.log(agent.prompt("Entertain me!"));

Model Provider Settings

We can configure different AI model providers, here we take the OpenAI model as th example.

Unix


export OPENAI_API_KEY=<your API key>

Windows


$env:OPENAI_API_KEY = "<your API key>"

Run the Code


tsc index.ts && node index.js