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OpenAI Agents SDK

by OpenAI

Lightweight agents with handoffs and guardrails.

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Overview

The successor to Swarm: a minimal, production-grade SDK from OpenAI with agents, handoffs, guardrails, and built-in tracing. Provider-agnostic with a tiny core you can read in an afternoon.

Key features

  • Primitive agents + handoffs pattern
  • Input/output guardrails
  • Built-in tracing dashboard
  • Responses API and hosted tools
  • Model-agnostic via LiteLLM

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