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# astart • AI Agent SDK

> astart: Async start the agent with a prompt.

# astart

AsyncMethod

> This is a method of the [**RunnableAgentProtocol**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/classes/RunnableAgentProtocol.md) class in the [**protocols**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/modules/protocols.md) module.

Async start the agent with a prompt.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
async def astart(prompt: str) -> str
```

## Parameters

**prompt** `str` *required*

No description available.

### Returns

**Returns** `str`

The result of the operation.

## Used By

* [`AgentTeam.astart`](../functions/AgentTeam-astart)
* [`AgentTeam.astart_for_each`](../functions/AgentTeam-astart_for_each)
* [`AgentTeam.aspawn_sub_agent`](../functions/AgentTeam-aspawn_sub_agent)
* [`AutoAgents.astart`](../functions/AutoAgents-astart)

## Source

> [card] [View on GitHub](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/agent/protocols.py#L115)
>
> `praisonaiagents/agent/protocols.py` at line 115


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