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A lightweight, powerful framework for multi-agent workflows

14 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2025-03-11 · latest 2025-11-06

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  1. …pretty exclusively an HTTP/REST wrapper. OpenAI does have an agents library, but it is separate in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python
    comment by tabletcorry · 2025-11-06 · in You should write an agent
  2. ▲ 6
    OpenAI rejects 1,200-line community PR for Google's A2A agent protocol
    story by sascha_heyer · 2025-10-30 · 3 comments
  3. …that was interesting in reading through your code and comparing to the original repo's examples ( https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/tree/main/exa... ) is it's really not all that different. Some metadata to denote things as a…
  4. In this case the "agent" definition they are using is the one from the https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python Python library, which they are running in the browser via Pyodide and WASM. That library defines an agent as a system…
  5. They define it in the same file https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/blob/48ff99bb... > An agent is an AI model configured with instructions, tools, guardrails, handoffs and more. Agents can hand off to other agents, but even the…
  6. …an agent per node. The whole workflow and the Runner class is for one agent. Check out this line: https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/blob/48ff99bb... A single `run_agent` is implemented based on the Runner class and workflow.…
  7. …understand how the inner agent framework is internally implemented, like those: OpenAI Agents: https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/blob/48ff99bb... Pydantic Agents: https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/blob/4c0f384a0626299...…
  8. …right function. For example, check out how OpenAI Agents, released a week ago, rely on a workflow: https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/blob/48ff99bb...
  9. …implementations of Agents, e.g., OpenAI agents released last week, are based on graph (workflow): https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/blob/48ff99bb... Not sure about Cursor you mentioned as its agent is not open sourced.
  10. …basically small graphs with loops and branches. For example: OpenAI Agents: for the workflow logic: https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/blob/48ff99bb... Pydantic Agents: organizes steps in a graph:…
  11. ▲ 5
    Show HN: MCP-Compatible OpenAI Agents SDK
    story by saqadri · 2025-03-12 · 2 comments
  12. …of a native integration and improvement to test suite. - https://github.com/comet-ml/opik-mcp - https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/pull/91 Our recent integration shipped on day 1: - https://www.comet.com/docs/opik/tracing/integr…
    comment by koconder · 2025-03-12 · in New tools for building agents
  13. …tools via function calling in short, we need to do some plumbing work. relevant issue in the repo: https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/issues/23
    comment by thenameless7741 · 2025-03-11 · in New tools for building agents
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    OpenAI Agents SDK
    story by dphuang2 · 2025-03-11 · 1 comment