Swarm - AI Agent Frameworks Tool

Overview

Swarm is an experimental, educational open-source framework from OpenAI for lightweight multi-agent orchestration. According to the GitHub repository, Swarm demonstrates how multiple stateless agents can coordinate by performing simple handoffs and delegating subtasks via the Chat Completions API. The project focuses on clear, example-driven patterns rather than production operational features, making it a learning resource for developers who want to understand agent-to-agent prompt choreography and orchestration primitives. Swarm is intentionally minimal: it provides small Python examples and orchestration patterns that show how to compose agents, route work between them, and record transcripts for debugging. The repository notes that Swarm is experimental and has been superseded by the production-ready OpenAI Agents SDK, so it is best used for education, prototyping, and as a reference implementation of stateless handoffs rather than as a drop-in production agent platform (according to the GitHub repository).

Installation

Install via pip:

git clone https://github.com/openai/swarm.git

cd swarm

pip install -r requirements.txt

export OPENAI_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

Key Features

• Example-driven Python scripts demonstrating agent handoffs and delegation patterns.
• Shows stateless agent interactions using the Chat Completions API for message exchange.
• Lightweight orchestration primitives to route tasks between specialized agents.
• Transcript and logging examples for debugging multi-agent conversations and decisions.
• Educational focus: readable code and patterns intended for learning and prototyping.

Community

Community activity is centered on the GitHub repository via issues, pull requests, and forks. Because Swarm is explicitly experimental and educational (per the repository), users tend to treat it as a reference implementation and discuss patterns, bugs, and example improvements rather than enterprise support. The project has been superseded by the OpenAI Agents SDK, so ongoing development and production-focused discussions have migrated to that newer SDK.

Key Information

• Category: Agent Frameworks
• Type: AI Agent Frameworks Tool