Ask HN: Anyone using OpenAI's Agent SDK in production?
I'm exploring building a simple agent-based app and came across OpenAI's Agent SDK: https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-js/ . From what I understand, it wraps a lot of functionality — like the agent loop, function calling, and integration with the OpenAI MCP server — which could potentially save me a lot of work compared to using the plain OpenAI SDK.
However, I'm wondering:
Is the Agent SDK too abstracted or hard to debug?
Has anyone actually used it in a real production app yet?
Would I be better off just implementing the logic myself on top of the plain OpenAI SDK for more control and transparency?
Appreciate any insights.
OpenAI SDK is much simpler to use and understand than langchain etc. I havent deployed really complicated agents, but I have a number of simple use cases that work just fine
you're better off just implementing the logic yourself as it is more flexible.