Stop writing your own agent loop: a hands-on tutorial for OpenAI's Agents API

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The Agents API, now in public beta, exposes the managed Codex harness behind the company's own agents as an API: OpenAI runs sessions, orchestration, context compaction, and recovery, while your application supplies the tools and picks the execution environment. There is no separate Agents API fee during the beta: you pay the selected model's API rates, standard rates for OpenAI tools, and standard container rates for OpenAI-hosted sandboxes. The Agents API collapses months of agent-infrastructure work — the loop, the session store, compaction, recovery, sandbox provisioning — into sessions. create.

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