# Build 3 Production AI Agents in Python with AgentSpan: Memory, RAG, and Orchestration

> Source: https://openclawdatabase.com/news/videos/2026-06-20-build-production-ai-agents-python/
> Last updated: 2026-06-20
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# Build 3 Production AI Agents in Python with AgentSpan: Memory, RAG, and Orchestration

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Tech With Tim builds three Python agents on the open-source AgentSpan framework — a conversational agent with memory, a RAG agent over a company database, and a multi-agent orchestrator — each written line by line. The focus is what makes an agent production-ready: durability across crashes, retries, human-in-the-loop, observability, long-running tasks and scale, all handled by a local AgentSpan server.

Source video

"Build 3 PRODUCTION AI Agents in Python - Full Course (Agentspan)" by **Tech With Tim** — [Watch on YouTube →](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zFw19qGAeGo)

## Key Takeaways

- Production agents need seven things: durability (recover without restarting), retries, human-in-the-loop, observability, long-running task support, scale and testing.
- AgentSpan splits the system into a worker (your code) and a server (provided, open-source) that tracks state, history and orchestration — so a crashed run reconnects and resumes instead of losing work.
- API keys live on the server, not in worker code, which is more secure; you export the provider key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, etc.) before starting the server.
- Tools are plain Python functions wrapped with an @tool decorator; the function name becomes the tool name and the docstring becomes its description the model reads.
- Adding ConversationMemory(max_messages=50) gives the agent recall across turns; the server dashboard shows every tool call, input, output and stop reason in real time.

## Commands & Code Mentioned

```
pip install agent-span      # or: uv add agent-span
uv run agentspan doctor     # check the install (Java 21, disk, API key, server jar)
uv run agentspan server start
export OPENAI_API_KEY=<your key>   # set before starting the server
uv add python-dotenv pydantic firecrawl-py
@tool   # decorator that turns a Python function into an agent tool
uv run agents/agent1.py
```

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 [⚙️ Configuration Reference](https://openclawdatabase.com/openclaw/configuration/)

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