OpenAI Agents SDK

Name: OpenAI Agents SDK
Rating: 5 (15800 reviews)
Author: OpenAI

OfficialGeneral Purpose

Official OpenAI SDK for building agents with tool use, handoffs, and guardrails. Lightweight, opinionated design with native support for OpenAI models and the Responses API.

by OpenAI15.8k starsMITUpdated Apr 2026

Installation

Install

pip install openai-agents

Language support

Python

Supported LLMs

OpenAIAny OpenAI-compatible API

Features (8)

tool_use

handoffs

guardrails

tracing

streaming

context_management

multi_agent

model_agnostic

Source

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Details

Author: OpenAI
Category: General Purpose
Languages: 1
Features: 8
Stars: 15.8k
License: MIT
Status: Official

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