OpenAI's lightweight SDK for building multi-agent systems with handoffs and guardrails.
Category: Agent Frameworks · Type: Agent framework · Website: https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python
Overview
The OpenAI Agents SDK is a small, opinionated framework for orchestrating agents with tools, handoffs between agents, guardrails, and built-in tracing. It is the production successor to OpenAI's earlier Swarm experiment and works with any provider, not just OpenAI.
Key Features
- Agents, tools, and inter-agent handoffs
- Input/output guardrails
- Built-in tracing and sessions
- Provider-agnostic despite the OpenAI name
Role in the Agentic AI Stack
A minimal orchestration layer from OpenAI, competing with LangGraph, CrewAI, and PydanticAI.
Part of Agentic AI Landscape → Agent Frameworks