Build a production-grade customer support agent with OpenAI Agents SDK
Structure and implement a customer support agent using the OpenAI Agents SDK, covering tools, guardrails, and advanced patterns.
- Learn how production-grade agents are structured by walking through a customer support agent built with the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- Cover how agents use tools to look up orders, answer FAQs, cancel orders, start complaints, route requests, apply guardrails, and generate outputs that can be evaluated.
- Connect core concepts like tools, instructions, handoffs, routing, guardrails, tracing, and evals to a concrete Python implementation.
- Understand how to move from a single-agent workflow to advanced patterns like agent-as-tool delegation, triage routing, guardrail tripwires, and model-graded evaluation.
Customer support use cases, OpenAI Agents SDK
A functional customer support agent, understanding of advanced agent patterns
This workflow outlines the process of building a production-grade customer support agent using the OpenAI Agents SDK. It covers integrating tools for tasks like order lookup and FAQ answering, implementing guardrails, and exploring advanced patterns such as agent-as-tool delegation.
By walking through a concrete Python implementation and connecting core concepts to practical application, this workflow provides a clear path to building sophisticated agent systems.
- Builder Bootcamp: Agents - Event ↗OpenAI Academy · OpenAI Academy · Sep 5, 2026 · paraphrased
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- Builder Bootcamp: Agents - EventOpenAI · OpenAI Academy · Sep 5, 2026
The Playbook: reusable how-tos, prompts, configs and tips pulled out of the news.
- HeuristicDefine task completion clearly to avoid premature stoppingExplicitly define what 'done' means for a task to ensure AI models complete the full scope. · 10 min
- Anti-patternBuilding agent infrastructure from scratchAvoid piecing together agent infrastructure; use standardized SDKs and native sandbox support. · 5 min
- Setting tipAgent workspace portability with Manifest abstractionUse the Manifest abstraction to describe agent workspaces for portability across different providers. · 10 min
- ToolOpenAI Agents SDK for building agentsSDK for building agents that can inspect files, run commands, edit code, and work on long-horizon tasks. · 15 min
- RuleReason about when and how to use tools for better AI performanceAI models should be trained to reason about tool usage, not just execute tools. · 10 min
- Anti-patternOverly specific instructions for advanced AI modelsAvoid detailed itineraries; newer models handle nuance and ambiguity better. · 10 min
Questions people ask
- Which AI tools does this work with?
- The sources used it with ChatGPT.
- Where did this come from?
- OpenAI Academy (OpenAI Academy). Subvolts collected, normalized and credited it; the link above opens the original.