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Developers and AI teams seeking to build reliable, long-running cloud agents with managed context, tools, sandboxes, and multi-agent orchestration
About OpenAI Agents API
The Agents API lets developers build and run cloud agents with the same harness and infrastructure that powers Codex, fully managed by OpenAI. A production-ready agent can be created with a single API call by specifying the task, model, tools, and environment, while OpenAI hosts and maintains the agent harness. Developers can choose where agents run: in an OpenAI-hosted sandbox, on their own infrastructure, or through supported sandbox partners. OpenAI-hosted sandboxes provide secure environments where agents can run code, work with files, use packages, skills, and plugins, and produce artifacts. The API is designed for long-running work, with automatic context compaction that preserves relevant information as sessions span multiple context windows. Tool search loads relevant tool definitions only when needed, while programmatic tool calling lets agents run calls in parallel, chain related operations, and filter or combine results in code.
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OpenAI
Founded: 2015
United States
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