OpenAI Agents SDK

Build typed browser agents with handoffs, guardrails, and tracing.

The OpenAI Agents SDK is OpenAI's official toolkit for building agents with typed tools, handoffs, guardrails, and tracing. The Steel integration runs each tool against a Steel cloud session, so you can stand up a typed browser agent that opens a session, navigates, extracts data, and returns a validated final report.

Available in TypeScript and Python.

Requirements

  • Steel API Key: Active Steel subscription
  • OpenAI API Key: A model supported by the Agents SDK
  • Runtime: Node.js 20+ or Python 3.10+

Connect Steel to the OpenAI Agents SDK

Open a Steel session inside a typed Agents SDK tool():

Typescript
import { tool } from "@openai/agents";

import { chromium } from "playwright";

import Steel from "steel-sdk";

import { z } from "zod";



const steel = new Steel({ steelAPIKey: STEEL_API_KEY });



const openSession = tool({

  name: "open_session",

  description: "Open a Steel cloud browser session.",

  parameters: z.object({}),

  execute: async () => {

    const session = await steel.sessions.create({});

    const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(

      `${session.websocketUrl}&apiKey=${STEEL_API_KEY}`,

    );

    return { sessionId: session.id, liveViewUrl: session.sessionViewerUrl };

  },

});

Full runnable starter: Steel + OpenAI Agents SDK recipe →

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