OpenAI Agents SDK
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I've had great success with the OpenAI agents SDK”
“Agents SDK is very useful. In-fact can design handoffs and multi agent orchestration very intuitively”
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“They feel good and stable. Making chat with Agents SDK is super easy.”
“I've been using the OpenAI Agents SDK for a while now and am largely happy with the abstractions”
Caveats and dissent
“Agents is messy enough, like making inconsistent use of its own enums etc”
“push Assistants API, Agents SDK and ChatGPT Apps which are more of a lock in”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Agents SDK: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-agents-with-openai-and-cloudflares-agents-sdk/”
“Agents SDK: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-agents-with-openai-and-cloudflares-agents-sdk/”
Threads where it came up
- Ask HK: How are you building AI apps today? 2 mentions
- Pi Durable 1 mention
- OpenAI Agents API 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) 1 mention
- Claude Managed Agents 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026) 1 mention
Also written as Agents SDK. Data: openai-agents-sdk.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
> nothing like durable objects (with containers no less) really exists in other clouds fwiw, celld is seeing a rush of building around it: https://celld.dev/ https://tlockney.github.io/celld-book/ https://noite.now/ https://github.com/kentcdodds/kody-celld https://celld-operator.io/ https://ewhauser.github.io/celld-operator/
“I've had great success with the OpenAI agents SDK”
“Agents SDK is very useful. In-fact can design handoffs and multi agent orchestration very intuitively”
“They feel good and stable. Making chat with Agents SDK is super easy.”
“I've been using the OpenAI Agents SDK for a while now and am largely happy with the abstractions”
“Agents is messy enough, like making inconsistent use of its own enums etc”
“push Assistants API, Agents SDK and ChatGPT Apps which are more of a lock in”
“OpenAI does have an agents library, but it is separate”