OpenAI Agents SDK (TypeScript)
OpenAI's lightweight, provider-agnostic TypeScript framework for multi-agent workflows and voice agents.
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About OpenAI Agents SDK (TypeScript)
The JavaScript and TypeScript edition of the OpenAI Agents SDK builds multi-agent workflows from agents with instructions, tools, guardrails and handoffs, plus sandbox agents with a filesystem workspace for longer work and realtime agents for low-latency voice. It supports function, MCP and hosted tools, human-in-the-loop steps, sessions and tracing, and works with OpenAI and other providers.
OpenAI Agents SDK (TypeScript) is an open-source project written primarily in TypeScript, with 3.9k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
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