OpenAI, best known for its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence chatbot, has released a set of tools aimed at helping developers and enterprises build useful and reliable agents.

The company says they view agents as systems that independently accomplish tasks on behalf of users. Over the past year, the company has introduced new model capabilities including as advanced reasoning, multimodal interactions, and new safety techniques, and the team says these new capabilities

"have laid the foundation for our models to handle the complex, multi-step tasks required to build agents. However, customers have shared that turning these capabilities into production-ready agents can be challenging, often requiring extensive prompt iteration and custom orchestration logic without sufficient visibility or built-in support."

This feedback has encouraged the team to develop the new set of APIs and tools specifically designed to simplify the development of agentic applications, specifically a new Responses API, built-in tools including web search⁠, file search⁠ and computer use⁠; and a new Agents SDK⁠. 

The Responses API is a new API primitive that uses OpenAI's built-in tools to build agents. The developers say it combines the simplicity of Chat Completions with the tool-use capabilities of the Assistants API, and that they believe that as model capabilities continue to evolve, the Responses API will provide a more flexible foundation for developers building agentic applications. With a single Responses API call, developers will be able to solve increasingly complex tasks using multiple tools and model turns.

The update also adds integrated observability tools⁠ that can be used to trace and inspect agent workflow execution. OpenAI says the new tools streamline core agent logic, orchestration, and interactions, making it easier for developers to get started with building agents. 

There's also a new Agents SDK that is designed to simplify orchestrating multi-agent workflows. The new SDK offers improvements over Swarm⁠, an experimental SDK released last year by OpenAI. It comes with configurable LLMs with clear instructions and built-in tools for Agents, and the ability toi ntelligently transfer control between agents. The SDK also has configurable safety checks for input and output validation, and the ability to visualize agent execution traces to debug and optimize performance.

The new tools are available now. 

More Information

OpenAI website

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