AI AGENTS
swarm
by OpenAI
Overview
Educational framework exploring ergonomic, lightweight multi-agent orchestration from OpenAI.
Details
Swarm is an OpenAI GitHub project described as an educational framework for exploring ergonomic, lightweight multi-agent orchestration. The supplied OpenAI Agents SDK documentation describes the Agents SDK as a production-ready upgrade of OpenAI's earlier Swarm experimentation for agents, with primitives for agents, handoffs, and guardrails. Swarm is therefore best understood as an earlier educational/experimental project rather than the current production-ready OpenAI agent SDK.
When to Use
Explore OpenAI's earlier approach to lightweight multi-agent orchestration and agent handoffs. Study Swarm as educational material before evaluating the production-ready OpenAI Agents SDK.
Getting Started
- Review the Swarm GitHub repository: https://github.com/openai/swarm
- Read the OpenAI Agents SDK documentation for the production-ready successor context: https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/
- Inspect the repository examples and compare Swarm concepts with Agents SDK primitives such as agents, handoffs, and guardrails.
Key Features
- •Educational framework for multi-agent orchestration
- •Designed around ergonomic, lightweight agent experimentation
- •Related to OpenAI's later Agents SDK concepts, including agents, handoffs, and guardrails
Capabilities
- •multi-agent orchestration
- •agent experimentation
- •agent handoffs
Last updated May 31, 2026