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OpenAI Agents SDK: Handoffs, Guardrails, Tracing

OpenAI Agents SDK is the lightweight multi-agent framework built on the Responses API. Five primitives: Agent, Handoff, Guardrail, Session, Tracing. Handoffs are tools named `transfer_to_<agent>`. Guardrails trip on input or output. Tracing is on by default.

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