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Re: OpenAI Agents API

#131
I've had great success with the OpenAI agents SDK [0]. This way I've been able to build the sandbox + slack + knowledge-bank integrations independently and be very strict with what I expose to OpenAI.

Looking at the Agents API, it seems like it offers similar capabilities, but reduces the need for hosting? So I get it from a business standpoint, but hosting a python service is very easy now a days, so I don't see the point as a consumer.

[0]: https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/

Re: OpenAI Agents API

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> building your own harness is a huge undertaking, a deep rabbit hole. I eventually gave up on this task. It's not possible to fight OpenAI or Anthropic's engineering teams. Their reasoning models have all kinds of undocumented back door access to the base models that you'd never be able to replicate from the outside. Even if you had full access you would not have the engineering man hours or experience to keep up. I…

Yet i find claude code worse than opencode.

I don't think anyone who's tried something else can like claude code. The only reason to use it is the subsidized plan and nothing else.

Re: OpenAI Agents API

#134
Hey guys AAAAAH WE ARE ABOUT TO DESTROY THE PLANET anyway heres an API reference so you can build durable codex harnesses OMG WE WILL KILL ALL HUMANS ITS GONNA HAPPEN GUYS let us know if you spot any issues IMMANTISE THE ESCHATON, ALL HAIL THE BASILISK ok guys?

Re: OpenAI Agents API

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post #104

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> LLMs are a great foundation but building your own harness is a huge undertaking, a deep rabbit hole I’ve been doing this for the past few months. I started with a server where I ran pi in tmux and then used that to build an LLM gateway and agent session manager, then built deterministic workflows using bash scripts and a skill/script distribution system. The app works on desktop, mobile and web and it works great.…

I also use Luna and DeepSeek in a custom harness. (Mine is very minimal.) GLM also works great. I had issues with some other models but it seems to do with the system prompt and tool calling format. Some models seem to only work well with some harnesses.

Ha yeah GLM and Kimi seem to always biff the tool calls. I recently added in a raw stream log switch to diagnose but since DS and Luna are so good and cheap I haven’t been that motivated to debug it …

Re: OpenAI Agents API

#139

I think we’re still figuring out the right abstraction for offering agents as a product. - LLMs are a great foundation but building your own harness is a huge undertaking, a deep rabbit hole. - There are harnesses available as open source libraries but that’s still coupled to an environment. Where does the state persist? Like maybe I’m a Cloudflare worker and don’t even have a file system. Agent as a service like thi…

Is GLM 5.3 Flash that good? I'm using it through atlascloud for my current project and testing performance against opus and gemini models. I think I'm mostly concerned about speed because they are mostly doing tool calls.

Also yes to an open runtime.

Re: OpenAI Agents API

#140

I've had great success with the OpenAI agents SDK [0]. This way I've been able to build the sandbox + slack + knowledge-bank integrations independently and be very strict with what I expose to OpenAI. Looking at the Agents API, it seems like it offers similar capabilities, but reduces the need for hosting? So I get it from a business standpoint, but hosting a python service is very easy now a days, so I don't see the…

Why not just build this yourself, you literally have AI, why wall yourself into an OpenAI garden. These sandboxed environments are trivial to build.
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