Environment setup
The first step in using OpenAI Agents SDK is successfully setting up your environment, which includes installing the SDK and configuring your system to be able to run it. We will cover prerequisites, how to set up a project with a virtual environment, and how to install the SDK on both Windows and macOS. We will also need to obtain an OpenAI API key and ensure that it can be stored and accessed securely. Following these steps will help avoid common installation issues and will confirm that your environment is ready for development.
Note
This chapter walks through setting up your environment for the purposes of running the SDK locally. If you cannot run the SDK locally (perhaps due to missing prerequisites on your machine) or prefer not to, then most of what we will cover in the book can be run remotely using Google Colab. If you would like to take this approach, please skip to the section titled Alternative methods: Google Colab.
