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OpenAI Agents SDK

Production-grade multi-agent orchestration from OpenAI

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OpenAI's production-grade agent framework, successor to Swarm. Core abstraction is explicit handoffs between agents carrying full context. Built for reliable multi-agent pipelines with native OpenAI tool use, tracing, and guardrails.

Choose OpenAI Agents SDK when…

  • You're building multi-agent systems on top of OpenAI models
  • You want explicit, auditable agent handoffs with full context passing
  • You need a production-hardened framework with built-in tracing and guardrails

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The Agents SDK uses OpenAI API models as the underlying LLM for all agent reasoning and tool calls.

Build production OpenAI agents with built-in handoffs, guardrails, and tracing on top of the API.

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