AI engineering glossary · Agents tools MCP
What is OpenAI Agents SDK?
OpenAI Agents SDK: A lightweight open-source toolkit from OpenAI for building agents with instructions, tools, handoffs between agents and guardrails, plus built-in tracing. It offers a small set of primitives for common agent designs.
OpenAI Agents SDK: an example
A developer defines a triage agent that hands off to a billing agent or a refund agent depending on the request.
Related terms
More Agents tools MCP terms
- Orchestrator-worker pattern
- Parallelisation pattern
- Plan-and-execute
- Planning (agents)
- Procedural memory
- Program-aided language model
- Read-only tool
- Reflection
Where you learn it
OpenAI Agents SDK is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.