OpenAI Agents SDK (Python)
OpenAI's lightweight, provider-agnostic Python framework for multi-agent workflows.
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Python teams who want minimal abstractions over agents, tools and handoffs.
About OpenAI Agents SDK (Python)
The OpenAI Agents SDK builds multi-agent workflows from agents configured with instructions, tools, guardrails and handoffs. It adds sandbox agents that work in a container over long horizons, realtime and voice agents, sessions, human-in-the-loop steps and tracing, and supports the OpenAI Responses and Chat Completions APIs as well as more than 100 other LLMs.
OpenAI Agents SDK (Python) is listed in this index written primarily in Python, with 30k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in November 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.
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| OpenAI Agents SDK (Python)this listing | 30k | Python | MIT | Costs not checked |
| OpenAI Agents SDK (TypeScript) | 4.0k | TypeScript | MIT | Costs not checked |
| mcp-agent | 8.6k | Python | Apache-2.0 | Costs not checked |
| AgentScope | 35k | Python | Apache-2.0 | Costs not checked |
| Mastra | 29k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Costs not checked |
| agent-framework | 14k | Python | MIT | Costs not checked |
