OpenAI Agents SDK
Our verdict
Minimal and easy to learn: agents, tools, handoffs, guardrails and tracing. A good default if you want something lighter than LangGraph.
- Who it's for
- Python developers building agent apps
- Leverage
- Multi-agent apps with little boilerplate
- Effort
- Medium
- Date added
What it does
The OpenAI Agents SDK is a lightweight framework for building multi-agent workflows, with primitives for agents, tools, handoffs, guardrails and tracing.
How builders use it
- Build a triage agent that hands off to specialists.
- Add input/output guardrails.
- Use tracing to debug runs.
What to expect
Working multi-agent apps quickly, with visibility into what happened.
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