OpenAI Agents SDK | The Best Way to Build Agents?

In this video, we explore OpenAI’s latest developer tools designed to help you build AI agents with ease. We break down the new Responses API—a stateful, multimodal alternative to the Assistants API—and the Agents SDK, which simplifies building AI agents with built-in loops, tool calling, handoffs, guardrails, and native tracing. You’ll see practical coding examples demonstrating file search, web search, multimodal inputs, and advanced AI workflows in action. 📌 Resources & Tutorials Check out our newly released newsletter on Substack — The Median: https://dcthemedian.substack.com Solution Notebook: https://bit.ly/41s1wQm Course - Working with the OpenAI API: https://www.datacamp.com/courses/working-with-the-openai-api OpenAI Agents SDK Docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/agents Responses API Overview: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/responses 📕 Chapters 00:00 Introduction to OpenAI's New Tools 00:20 Jump to Coding Sections 00:38 Overview of the Responses API 01:00 Deprecation of the Assistants API 01:27 Key Features of the Responses API 01:49 Multimodal Capabilities & Future Updates 02:07 Comparing Responses API vs. Chat Completions API 02:34 OpenAI’s New Agents SDK Overview 03:00 Built-in Agent Loop & Tool Calling 03:26 Agent Handoffs & Delegation 03:46 Guardrails for Input Validation 04:07 Tracing & Observability for Agents 05:22 Getting Started with the Responses API 05:42 Installing Necessary Packages 06:02 Importing Required Libraries 07:24 Setting Up OpenAI API Key 09:02 Connecting API Key in Environment Variables 09:52 Generating Text with the Responses API 11:26 Using the Responses API for Image Analysis 15:34 Performing Web Search with the API 18:05 File Search with Vector Stores 22:26 Combining Web Search & Multimodal Input 26:36 Introduction to the Agents SDK 27:13 Building a Simple Agent (History Twitter Agent) 29:22 Using Tracing to Monitor Agent Activity 30:22 Creating a Math Tutor Agent 32:04 Using a Triage Agent for Task Delegation 34:41 Demonstrating Tracing in Action 36:16 Implementing Guardrails for AI Agents 37:51 Structuring Guardrail Output 40:17 Defining Guardrails for the Agent 41:17 Adding Guardrails to a Triage Agent 42:36 Testing Guardrail Functionality 43:46 Recap & Future Plans for the SDK 44:10 Closing Remarks & Call to Action 📱Follow Us on Social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datacampinc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/datacamp LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/datacampinc/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacamp/ #OpenAI #AIAgents #GPT4o #ResponsesAPI #AIDevelopment #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Developers #AIChatbots #LLMs