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Introducing the Agents API
OpenAI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- OpenAI released the Agents API, a managed service for building and deploying cloud agents with tool use and long-running sessions.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building autonomous systems or multi-step workflows should evaluate this for simplifying agent deployment and session management.
- Watch out
- Details on pricing, rate limits, session persistence guarantees, and tool integration constraints are not specified in available information.
- agent
- tool use
The patterns behind this
- Context Editing & Tool-Result Clearing
- Task Management & Orchestration
- MCP Gateway (Tool Federation & Governance)
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