Agent frameworks & harnesses · OpenAI
OpenAI Agents SDK
An open-source toolkit for building agents in Python and TypeScript. It runs the loop that calls a model, uses tools, hands work to another agent, and stops when the task is done.
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Features
- Agents, tool calls, handoffs, guardrails, sessions, and built-in tracing
- Python package openai-agents and TypeScript package @openai/agents, both MIT licensed
- Sandbox agents that work inside an isolated workspace
- Uses OpenAI's Responses API by default when you call OpenAI models
Pricing summary
The SDK itself has no license fee. The Python and TypeScript packages are MIT licensed. Model calls go through your OpenAI API account, so you pay OpenAI's API rates for the models you use. OpenAI does not list a separate subscription for the SDK.
open-source · paid
This SDK is a harness you embed in your own app. It is not the ChatGPT product.
