OpenAI Announces Agents API
OpenAI introduces the Agents API, a new cloud agent management tool that simplifies building and running cloud agents with a single API call.
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- OOpenAI NewsCompany2026-09-10
OpenAI hosts and maintains the harness. You choose the agent’s compute environment: in an OpenAI-managed sandbox, on your own infrastructure, or with one of our sandbox partners. The Agents API gives you a strong foundation for building agents on top of our optimized agent harne…
- OOpenAI NewsCompany2026-09-10
“The Agents API has enabled us to think differently about how we can architect complex, multi-step workflows. We used to write prompt chains and manage our own set of tool calls, but now we can use agents directly in our code much like how Codex works on your laptop. It’s alread…