OpenAI Agents SDK
Lightweight framework for multi-agent workflows with handoffs, guardrails and tracing.
- Maker
- OpenAI
- Kind
- framework
- Interface
- SDK
- Open source
- Open source · Licence: MIT · GitHub
- GitHub stars
- 30,100 (GitHub API, 2026-10-17)
- Models
- —
- Pricing
- —
- MCP support
- Yes
- Subagents
- Yes Multi-agent via handoffs.
- Headless / scripted mode
- —
- Sandboxing
- Yes
- Note
- Stars are for the Python repo; JS repo has 3,923.
- Official site
- https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/
- Sources
- api.github.com/repos/openai/openai-agents-python · api.github.com/repos/openai/openai-agents-js · openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/mcp/ · openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/handoffs/ · openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/sandbox_agents/ (docs checked 2026-10-17)
- Other frameworks
- Claude Agent SDK, smolagents, Mastra, LangGraph
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