Design features of the OpenAI Agents SDK

The OpenAI Agents SDK was designed with a few key principles in mind, aimed at balancing ease of use with flexibility for developers. Understanding these design choices will help clarify why the SDK works the way it does (and how it differs from other solutions).

Framework for building AI agents

At a high level, the OpenAI Agents SDK is used to build AI agents in the same way web frameworks (such as Django, Ruby on Rails, etc.) are used to build websites. These frameworks abstract the low-level parts of AI agent development and orchestration. This enables developers to focus on the higher-level impactful logic and deploy an agent as fast as possible without needing to worry about scaffolding.With the SDK, we can create an agent with a few lines of Python code:

agent = Agent(name="Assistant", instructions="You are an AI agent", model=“gpt-4o”)
result = Runner...