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The Agents SDK

Build production multi-agent systems with OpenAI's Agents SDK โ€” handoffs, guardrails, tracing, and sandboxed execution. Part of the free OpenAI Academy โ€” every lesson below is open to everyone, no signup required.

3 lessons950 XP~48 min total100% free

// LESSONS IN THIS MODULE

  1. 01Agents SDK Fundamentals15 min ยท 300 XP

    OpenAI's Agent Framework The Agents SDK (successor to the experimental Swarm framework) is OpenAI's production-ready runtime for building multi-agent...

  2. 02Handoffs & Multi-Agent Patterns18 min ยท 350 XP

    Agent-to-Agent Delegation Handoffs are the primary mechanism for multi-agent collaboration. When Agent A encounters a task outside its expertise, it d...

  3. 03Guardrails & Tracing15 min ยท 300 XP

    Safety at Every Layer Guardrails are validation functions that run at different stages of the agent loop to enforce safety policies. Three Tiers of Gu...

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