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OpenAI Launches the Agents API
OpenAI has moved its managed agent infrastructure out of internal research and into public beta with the new Agents API.
What: The Agents API allows developers to access the agentic harness used for Codex, providing built-in handling for long-running execution, persistent storage, tool orchestration, and sandboxed code environments.
Why it matters: This indicates a transition toward standardizing complex agentic workflows, moving them from custom-built engineering scripts into a managed, scalable infrastructure layer.
Takeaway: If you are building long-running AI agents that require persistent state and tool use, you can now access these features via the public beta endpoint.
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OpenAI introduced the Agents API in public beta, giving developers access to the managed agent harness and infrastructure behind Codex. It handles context, tools, subagents, persistent execution, files, and code environments for agents that can run for extended periods.
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