Agent System Management

As your agentic systems grow in complexity, keeping them reliable and understandable becomes just as important as building their core logic. Multi-agent systems can quickly become difficult to reason about, with many agents, tools, and handoffs interacting in non-obvious ways. To manage this complexity, OpenAI Agents SDK provides powerful features for visualization, guardrails, observability, and testing.

Here is what you will learn as part of this chapter:

• Agent visualization: You’ll learn how to generate graphical diagrams of multi-agent systems, showing agents, tools, and their interactions to improve clarity and debugging
• Guardrails: You’ll see how to implement both input and output guardrails, ensuring that unsafe, irrelevant, or policy-violating content is intercepted before it enters or leaves your system
• Logging, tracing, and observability: You’ll explore how the Traces module records model calls, tool...