OpenAI launches Agents API: sessions, orchestration and evals for hour-long agents
shaunralston · x · 2026-09-11
- OpenAI has published full documentation for its new Agents API, which the author calls a new engine for agents: the model was never the hard part — the hard part is an AI that can work for hours, use tools, remember what it did, recover from failures, and not choke on a mountain of logs.
- The API covers session management (create/resume), events and items, background mode, multi-agent orchestration, mid-turn steering, file inputs, compaction, and webhooks.
- It ships alongside Agent Builder (with a migration guide), agent safety guidance, and an Evals stack (prompt optimizer, graders, external models), plus fine-tuning options (SFT, DPO, RFT).
- Docs also reference newer models (e.g. GPT-6 Astra quickstart), realtime voice and voice agents, video generation, and a migration path from the legacy Assistants API.
Related event: OpenAI Launches Agents API Beta with Managed Sandboxes(13 posts)→
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