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Python developers requiring a tool to build modular, multi-agent AI applications with minimal overhead
About OpenAI Agents SDK
The OpenAI Agents SDK enables you to build agentic AI apps in a lightweight, easy-to-use package with very few abstractions. It's a production-ready upgrade of our previous experimentation for agents, Swarm. The Agents SDK has a very small set of primitives, agents, which are LLMs equipped with instructions and tools; handoffs, which allow agents to delegate to other agents for specific tasks; and guardrails, which enable the inputs to agents to be validated. In combination with Python, these primitives are powerful enough to express complex relationships between tools and agents, and allow you to build real-world applications without a steep learning curve. In addition, the SDK comes with built-in tracing that lets you visualize and debug your agentic flows, evaluate them, and even fine-tune models for your application.
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OpenAI
Founded: 2015
United States
openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/
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