Can WorkflowTools emit step events?

[sroy-forr]

In WorkflowTools individual step events from the workflow won't surface as separate step events in the parent agent's stream.

It runs the entire workflow and returns the final result to the agent. The internal step-by-step events happen within the workflow but aren't propagated to the outer agent's event stream.

Is there a way to emit those?

research_workflow=Workflow(
name=Names.Workflows.RESEARCH_WORKFLOW,
user_id=user_id,
session_id=session_id,
steps=[...]

research_workflow_tool = WorkflowTools(workflow=research_workflow)

Agent(
name=Names.Agents.RESEARCH_AGENT,
user_id=user_id,
session_id=session_id,
model=model,
markdown=True,
debug_mode=False,
tools=[research_workflow_tool]
)

[pandego]

Not through WorkflowTools directly, at least in the current implementation.

That wrapper calls self.workflow.run(...) / arun(...) and then returns the final WorkflowRunOutput as JSON. It does not pass stream=True or stream_events=True, so the parent agent only sees the final tool result, not the inner workflow's StepStartedEvent / StepCompletedEvent stream.

You can see both sides in the repo:

• libs/agno/agno/tools/workflow.py - WorkflowTools.run_workflow() returns the final workflow result
• libs/agno/tests/integration/workflows/test_streaming_events.py - workflows themselves do emit step events when run with stream=True, stream_events=True

So the current pattern is:

1. if you need step-level visibility, run the workflow directly with stream=True, stream_events=True
2. if you need to keep it usable as a tool, wrap the workflow in your own custom tool and forward those workflow events yourself into whatever outer stream/log/UI you control
3. use agent/team tool_hooks or stream hooks for logging/side effects around the tool call, but those hooks won't magically expose the workflow's internal step events unless you bridge them yourself

So short version: the workflow engine supports step events, but WorkflowTools is currently a final-result adapter, not an event-propagating bridge.