Overview

Gen AI Builder exposes a global singleton, Defaults, which can be used to access and modify the default configurations of the framework.

To update the default configurations, simply update the fields on the Defaults object. Framework objects will be created with the currently set default configurations, but you can always override at the individual class level.

from griptape.configs import Defaults
from griptape.configs.drivers import AnthropicDriversConfig, OpenAiDriversConfig
from griptape.drivers.prompt.anthropic_prompt_driver import AnthropicPromptDriver
from griptape.structures import Agent

Defaults.drivers_config = OpenAiDriversConfig()  # Default
openai_agent = Agent()

Defaults.drivers_config = AnthropicDriversConfig()
anthropic_agent = Agent(
    prompt_driver=AnthropicPromptDriver(model="claude-3-7-sonnet-latest"),  # Override the default prompt driver
)

Drivers Configs

The DriversConfig class allows for the customization of Structures within Gen AI Builder, enabling specific settings such as Drivers to be defined for Tasks.

Gen AI Builder provides predefined DriversConfig's for widely used services that provide APIs for most Driver types Gen AI Builder offers.

DriversConfigs can be used as a Python Context Manager using the with statement to temporarily change the default configurations for a block of code.

OpenAI

The OpenAI Driver config provides default Drivers for OpenAI's APIs. This is the default config for all Structures.

from griptape.configs import Defaults
from griptape.configs.drivers import OpenAiDriversConfig
from griptape.structures import Agent

Defaults.drivers_config = OpenAiDriversConfig()

agent = Agent()

Azure OpenAI

The Azure OpenAI Driver config provides default Drivers for Azure's OpenAI APIs.

import os

from griptape.configs import Defaults
from griptape.configs.drivers import AzureOpenAiDriversConfig
from griptape.structures import Agent

Defaults.drivers_config = AzureOpenAiDriversConfig(
    azure_endpoint=os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT_1"], api_key=os.environ["AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY_1"]
)

agent = Agent()

Amazon Bedrock

The Amazon Bedrock Driver config provides default Drivers for Amazon Bedrock's APIs.

import os

import boto3

from griptape.configs import Defaults
from griptape.configs.drivers import AmazonBedrockDriversConfig
from griptape.structures import Agent

Defaults.drivers_config = AmazonBedrockDriversConfig(
    session=boto3.Session(
        region_name=os.environ["AWS_DEFAULT_REGION"],
        aws_access_key_id=os.environ["AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"],
        aws_secret_access_key=os.environ["AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"],
    )
)

agent = Agent()

Google

The Google Driver config provides default Drivers for Google's Gemini APIs.

from griptape.configs import Defaults
from griptape.configs.drivers import GoogleDriversConfig
from griptape.structures import Agent

Defaults.drivers_config = GoogleDriversConfig()

agent = Agent()

Anthropic

The Anthropic Driver config provides default Drivers for Anthropic's APIs.

Info

Anthropic does not provide an embeddings API which means you will need to use another service for embeddings. To override the default embedding driver, see: Override Default Structure Embedding Driver.

from griptape.configs import Defaults
from griptape.configs.drivers import AnthropicDriversConfig
from griptape.structures import Agent

Defaults.drivers_config = AnthropicDriversConfig()

agent = Agent()

Cohere

The Cohere Driver config provides default Drivers for Cohere's APIs.

import os

from griptape.configs import Defaults
from griptape.configs.drivers import CohereDriversConfig
from griptape.structures import Agent

Defaults.drivers_config = CohereDriversConfig(api_key=os.environ["COHERE_API_KEY"])

agent = Agent()

Custom

You can create your own DriversConfig by overriding relevant Drivers. The DriversConfig class includes "Dummy" Drivers for all types, which throw a DummyError if invoked without being overridden. This approach ensures that you are informed through clear error messages if you attempt to use Structures without proper Driver configurations.

import os

from griptape.configs import Defaults
from griptape.configs.drivers import DriversConfig
from griptape.drivers.embedding.openai import OpenAiEmbeddingDriver
from griptape.drivers.prompt.anthropic import AnthropicPromptDriver
from griptape.structures import Agent

Defaults.drivers_config = DriversConfig(
    prompt_driver=AnthropicPromptDriver(
        model="claude-3-sonnet-20240229",
        api_key=os.environ["ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"],
    ),
    embedding_driver=OpenAiEmbeddingDriver(),
)


agent = Agent()

Logging Config

Gen AI Builder provides a predefined LoggingConfig's for easily customizing the logging events that the framework emits. In order to customize the logger, the logger can be fetched by using the Defaults.logging.logger_name.

import logging

from griptape.configs import Defaults
from griptape.configs.drivers import OpenAiDriversConfig
from griptape.configs.logging import TruncateLoggingFilter
from griptape.structures import Agent

Defaults.drivers_config = OpenAiDriversConfig()

logger = logging.getLogger(Defaults.logging_config.logger_name)
logger.setLevel(logging.ERROR)
logger.addFilter(TruncateLoggingFilter(max_log_length=100))

agent = Agent()

Debug Logs

You can enable debug logs to view more granular information such as request/response payloads.

Loading/Saving Configs

You can serialize and deserialize Driver Configs using the to_json() and from_json() methods.

from pathlib import Path

from griptape.configs import Defaults
from griptape.configs.drivers import DriversConfig
from griptape.structures import Agent

config_file = "config.json"

# Save config
config_text = Defaults.drivers_config.to_json()
Path(config_file).write_text(config_text)

# Load config
config_text = Path(config_file).read_text()
Defaults.drivers_config = DriversConfig.from_json(config_text)


agent = Agent()

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