Pattern
OpenAI Agents SDK
Provide a lightweight framework where multi-agent systems are designed as networks of agents connected by hand-offs (agent-to-agent transitions implemented as tool calls), with the framework handling routing and the agents themselves being simple functions.
Classification — Hand-off-centric multi-agent framework, production successor to OpenAI Swarm.
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