Build a Multi-Agent Data Pipeline in 50 Lines of Neam
<p>In this tutorial, you'll build a working multi-agent data pipeline using Neam, an agentic AI programming language. By the end, you'll have a DIO orchestrating five agents through a churn prediction workflow.</p> <p><strong>Step 1: Define Your Infrastructure Profile. This tells every agent where data lives and what compliance rules apply:</strong><br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight hcl"><code><span class="nx">infrastructure_profile</span> <span class="nx">MyInfra</span> <span class="p">{</span> <span class="nx">data_warehouse</span><span class="err">:</span> <span class="p">{</span> <span class="nx">platform</span><span class="err">:</span> <span class="s2">"postgres"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">connection</span><span class="err">
In this tutorial, you'll build a working multi-agent data pipeline using Neam, an agentic AI programming language. By the end, you'll have a DIO orchestrating five agents through a churn prediction workflow.
Step 1: Define Your Infrastructure Profile. This tells every agent where data lives and what compliance rules apply:
infrastructure_profile MyInfra { data_warehouse: { platform: "postgres", connection: env("DB_URL") }, governance: { regulations: ["GDPR"] } }infrastructure_profile MyInfra { data_warehouse: { platform: "postgres", connection: env("DB_URL") }, governance: { regulations: ["GDPR"] } }Enter fullscreen mode
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Step 2: Declare Your Agents. Each agent is a specialist. Note the budget constraints:
budget B { cost: 50.00, tokens: 500000 }
databa agent MyBA { provider: "openai", model: "gpt-4o", budget: B } datascientist agent MyDS { provider: "openai", model: "gpt-4o", budget: B } datatest agent MyDT { provider: "openai", model: "gpt-4o", budget: B }`
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Step 3: Wire Up the DIO. The orchestrator coordinates everything:
budget DioBudget { cost: 500.00, tokens: 2000000 }
dio agent MyDIO { mode: "hybrid", task: "Predict customer churn, identify drivers", infrastructure: MyInfra, agent_md: "./my_domain.agent.md", provider: "openai", model: "gpt-4o", budget: DioBudget }
let result = dio_solve(MyDIO, task) print(result)`
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Step 4: Create Your Agent.MD. This is the secret weapon — encode domain knowledge:
## @organization-context Company: My E-Commerce Co Scale: 500K customers, 5M orders## @organization-context Company: My E-Commerce Co Scale: 500K customers, 5M orders@known-data-issues
- signup_date timezone drift before 2024-03
- Product ratings skew positive (self-reported)
@agent-preferences
DataScientist: XGBoost for tabular, AUC-ROC metric`
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Run it: neam-cli run my_pipeline.neam
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