OpenAI Agents SDK: the lightweight pick for simple agent apps
goyalshaliniuk · x · 2026-08-29
Part 3 of the framework thread: the OpenAI Agents SDK (openai-agents-python, 29k stars) is best for simple agent applications, offering tools, handoffs, guardrails and tracing. It is provider-agnostic — supporting OpenAI Responses/Chat Completions APIs plus 100+ other LLMs — and includes sandbox agents and realtime voice agents built on gpt-realtime-2.1.
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