OpenAI Agents SDK
Build sophisticated multi-agent AI workflows with a lightweight, provider-agnostic Python framework
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- Build sophisticated multi-agent AI workflows with a lightweight, provider-agnostic Python framework
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About OpenAI Agents SDK
A lightweight, powerful framework for building multi-agent workflows with support for agent handoffs, guardrails, tracing, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
Pros
- Agent configuration with instructions, tools, guardrails, and handoff capabilities
- Sandbox Agents for operating within controlled container environments with filesystem and command execution access
- Inter-agent handoffs for task delegation between specialized agents
- Tool support including standard functions, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and hosted tools
- Configurable input and output guardrails for safety validation
- Built-in human-in-the-loop patterns for human intervention during agent runs
- Automatic session management for conversation history across multiple runs
- Integrated tracing for debugging, viewing, and optimizing workflows
- Realtime Agents support for voice-based workflows using gpt-realtime-1.5
- Provider-agnostic: supports OpenAI models and 100+ other LLMs via any-llm and LiteLLM
- Optional voice support with pip install 'openai-agents[voice]'
- Optional Redis session support with pip install 'openai-agents[redis]'