OpenAI Agents API adds sandbox pre-warming to slash agent latency
OpenAIDevs · x · 2026-10-13
OpenAI announced a major Agents API update: sandbox pre-warming dramatically reduces latency. You pre-create a hosted environment (installing packages, running setup commands) via agents.environments.create, then reuse its environmentid when creating a session — avoiding cold-start overhead per conversation.
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