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openai/swarm

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Swarm is an educational framework developed by the OpenAI Solutions team that explores ergonomic and lightweight multi-agent orchestration. It is designed to facilitate coordination and execution among multiple agents in a scalable, controllable, and testable manner. The framework introduces two core abstractions: Agents and handoffs. An Agent is defined by its instructions and tools, and it can hand off conversations to other Agents, enabling complex interactions and workflows. Swarm operates statelessly, powered by the Chat Completions API, and runs primarily on the client side without storing state between calls. Swarm is intended as an educational resource for developers interested in multi-agent orchestration patterns that are lightweight and customizable. It is particularly useful for scenarios involving numerous independent capabilities and instructions that are challenging to consolidate into a single prompt. The framework supports function calling, context variables, and streaming responses, allowing developers to build rich, real-world multi-agent systems. Swarm is not related to the Assistants API, which provides fully-hosted threads and memory management; instead, it offers a more hands-on approach to understanding agent coordination. The project includes various examples demonstrating fundamental concepts such as setup, function calling, handoffs, and context variables, as well as more complex use cases like customer service bots, personal shopping agents, and triage systems. Swarm's client.run() method manages the interaction loop, handling agent completions, tool executions, agent switching, and context updates until the conversation concludes. Although Swarm is experimental and has been replaced by the production-ready OpenAI Agents SDK, it remains a valuable educational tool for learning multi-agent orchestration techniques. Keywords: multi-agent orchestration, agent coordination, lightweight framework, educational, OpenAI, Chat Completions API, function calling, context variables, handoffs, stateless, client-side, scalable, customizable, multi-agent systems, agent handoff, streaming responses, experimental, OpenAI Agents SDK, examples, customer service bot, personal shopper, triage agent.

https://github.com/openai/swarm

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