# OpenAI launches the Responses API and Agents SDK

> OpenAI introduced the Responses API, built-in web search, file search, and computer-use tools, plus an Agents SDK and tracing features. The company presented the API as a foundation for agent applications and described a future transition path from the Assistants API, with tool behavior and data boundaries remaining application design concerns.

Canonical: https://hypler.com/ai-news/openai-responses-api-agents-sdk-2025
Hypler publication: 2026-10-06
Original source date: 2025-03-11
Publisher: OpenAI
Article kind: source-briefing
Category: Developer tools
Tags: Responses API, Agents SDK, observability

## Engineering relevance

Built-in tools simplify integration but do not settle data, authorization, or observability design. Hypler should define allowed tools per workflow and retain input, output, approval, and failure evidence.

## Original source

- [OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/new-tools-for-building-agents/)

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