You're reading from Building Agents with OpenAI Agents SDK Create practical AI agents and agentic systems through hands-on projects

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781806112012

Length 276 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

OpenAI Python library

Concepts

GPT/LLMs

Author (1):

Henry Habib

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: AI Agents

2. Introduction to AI Agents FREE CHAPTER

3. Introduction to OpenAI Agents SDK

4. Environment Setup and Developing Your First Agent

5. Part 2: OpenAI Agents SDK

6. Agent Tools and MCPs

7. Memory and Knowledge

8. Multi-Agent Systems and Handoffs

9. Model and Context Management

10. Agent System Management

11. Part 3: Build AI Agents

12. Building AI Agents and Agentic Systems

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

14. Index

OpenAI Agents SDK

Part 2 is the technical core of the book. Here we move from “agent as an idea” to “agent as an engineered system,” using OpenAI Agents SDK as our primary vehicle. Each chapter deepens one specific capability and the primitives set of OpenAI Agents SDK. For each component, we discuss the theory and then apply it to examples and demos as we build practical AI agents and agentic systems.

Specifically, you will extend your agent with tools (from simple functions to hosted tools and agents-as-tools), add memory and knowledge retrieval, and compose multi-agent systems with deliberate handoffs. You will learn how to tune models and context, how to structure multi-agent systems, and how to deploy and monitor them with guardrails and policies.

This part contains the following chapters: