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OpenAI Agents SDK

Verified Sep 2026

Build agents with the OpenAI stack

Production agent SDK with handoffs, guardrails, sessions and tracing: successor to Swarm.

OpenAI's 2025 agent SDK: a lightweight loop (agents, handoffs, guardrails, sessions) with tracing built in, plus realtime agents for voice. Minimal by design after the Swarm experiment

Who it's for

Python developers building agents directly on OpenAI models with handoffs, guardrails and tracing built in.

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