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OpenAI Agents SDK

Small explicit primitive set that relies on normal Python control flow rather than a heavy orchestration DSL.

Agent frameworksSDK / LibraryMulti-agent orchestrationWorkflow automation
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Overview

Research summary

OpenAI Agents SDK is an MIT-licensed Python framework for building agentic applications around a deliberately small set of primitives. Agents combine instructions, models and tools; handoffs and agents-as-tools support delegation between specialized agents; guardrails validate selected inputs and outputs; and the runtime includes sessions, streaming and tracing for inspecting executions. The SDK is designed to let normal Python control flow own application structure rather than requiring every workflow to be represented by a large framework-specific graph or configuration language.

Although it integrates most directly with OpenAI models and platform capabilities, the framework layer is distinct from the hosted models and APIs that execute requests. The repository is therefore useful both as an implementation toolkit and as a reference for a relatively minimal agent-runtime design. OpenAI service usage, model access and tracing backends retain their own operational and commercial terms.

Repository summary

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Agent frameworksSDK / LibraryMulti-agent orchestrationWorkflow automation

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Licence scope

MIT

Implementation

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Implementation details

Python agent runtime and SDK

Languages
Python
Repository type
source

Recorded interfaces and capabilities

SDK / LibraryMulti-agent orchestrationWorkflow automation

Licence scope

MIT

Repository

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openai/openai-agents-python ↗

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29,491
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2026-09-16
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Research date
2026-09-16
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2026-10-06