Agents Sdk
OfficialProvides OpenAI guidance and assistance for building AI and machine learning applications.
Install on your platform
Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.
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Run this in your project
terminal$ npx skills add openai/plugins --skill agents-sdk --full-depth -a claude-code Uses the open-source
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What we know about this skill
Publisher
openai
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Install target
Live repository
Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.
Automated safety checks
This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.
Declares what it does: passed
SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.
SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.
No undeclared network calls: passed
Only contacts known or declared hosts: 127.0.0.1.
Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.
Hosts contacted
127.0.0.1localNo obfuscated payloads: passed
No encoded or obfuscated payloads.
No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.
No credential access: passed
Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.
Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.
No pipe-to-shell installers: passed
No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.
No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.
Pinned to a commit: passed
Scanned openai/plugins at 5fd93af4cd.
The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.
- Commit
- 5fd93af4cd
- Scanned
- 12 files, 1,304 lines
- Copies in repo
- 2 — all of them scanned
About this skill
The OpenAI Agents SDK provides a unified framework for building, deploying, and managing AI agents with advanced reasoning and tool-use capabilities. It streamlines the development process by offering pre-built components that handle complex agent workflows without requiring deep infrastructure knowledge.
When to use it
- Build autonomous agents capable of planning multi-step tasks independently.
- Integrate custom tools like API calls or database queries into agent logic.
- Deploy scalable agent systems across different environments with minimal code changes.
- Experiment with cutting-edge AI models using a standardized, production-ready interface.
Key capabilities
- Unified framework for creating and managing AI agents
- Built-in support for advanced reasoning and tool use
- Pre-built components for rapid agent development
- Scalable deployment options for diverse environments
Example prompts
- "Create an agent that monitors stock prices and sends alerts when thresholds are breached."
- "Build a customer support agent that can handle refunds by accessing our database."
- "Design an agent to automate social media posting based on trending topics."
Tips & gotchas
Ensure you have access to the necessary API keys and permissions before deploying agents. Start with simple use cases to understand the framework's capabilities before scaling to complex workflows.