The OpenAI Agents SDK (formerly Swarm, released as stable in early 2026) is a Python library for building multi-agent AI systems. Unlike LangChain's abstraction-heavy approach or CrewAI's role-playing model, the Agents SDK exposes five clean primitives and gets out of the way.

This guide covers everything from setup to production deployment, including handoffs, guardrails, sessions, and tracing.

Installing and Configuring

pip install openai-agents

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