The OpenAI Agents SDK v0.13 to v0.17 window introduced three breaking changes. Two are silent — they change behavior without triggering errors at upgrade time. Here
OpenAI Agents SDK 0.13 → 0.17: Three Breaking Changes You Will Hit
The OpenAI Agents SDK moved from 0.13 to 0.17 in five weeks (April 9 – May 19, 2026). That's 19 releases, including three breaking changes. Two of them are silent — they change runtime behavior without raising an error at upgrade time.
If you're running agents on 0.13.x, this is the migration guide you need before you upgrade.
The Three Breaks
Break #1: ModelRefusalError (v0.15.0) — Silent to Loud
A 3-minute video and an open question. After hitting the same three holes — agents that 'wait' for you, agents that die silently,…
This week split cleanly into two tracks: new primitives that make agents more capable in production,...
Author(s): Rajesh Vishnani Originally published on Towards AI. What Claude Opus 4.8 Actually Changes If You’re Building…
The theme this week is consolidation: AI SDK 7 ships a provider-agnostic foundation for production...
oh-my-agent crossed 9.0 this week, and it carries the project's first breaking change: the agent slot...
This week's releases share a common thread: removing the friction that forces humans to babysit AI...
