openai/openai-agents-js

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A lightweight, provider-agnostic TypeScript/JavaScript framework from OpenAI for building multi-agent LLM workflows, including text agents, sandboxed workspace agents, and low-latency realtime voice agents. It provides primitives for agents, handoffs, tools (including MCP), guardrails, human-in-the-loop, automatic session history, and built-in tracing for debugging agent runs.

Use cases

• build multi-agent workflows in typescript
• create realtime voice agents for spoken interactions
• orchestrate llm agents with handoffs and agents-as-tools
• add guardrails to validate agent inputs and outputs
• connect agents to tools via mcp or custom functions
• trace and debug agent runs
• manage conversation history across agent runs
• run agents in a sandboxed filesystem workspace

When to choose

• You're building agentic AI applications in JavaScript/TypeScript on Node.js, Deno, or Bun
• You need multi-agent orchestration with handoffs, tools, guardrails, and sessions in one small package
• You want low-latency voice agents that connect to microphone and audio output in the browser via WebRTC
• You want built-in tracing and conversation history management without extra plumbing

When to avoid

• You're building in Python and should use the Python OpenAI Agents SDK instead
• You need a heavyweight framework with extensive abstractions beyond a small set of primitives
• You need to run on edge runtimes like Cloudflare Workers as a first-class target (only experimental there)
• Your project doesn't involve LLM-driven agents or voice/text agent workflows

Facets

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agent-framework mcp tracing artificial-intelligence large-language-models speech-processing bun browser typescript openai multi-agent-workflows voice-agents realtime guardrails handoffs tool-calling sessions sandbox-agents human-in-the-loop webrtc provider-agnostic sdk ai-agents nodejs deno

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