In this hands-on lecture, you’ll be introduced to the OpenAI Agents SDK, Ed Donner’s favourite agent framework, and you’ll prepare for it by mastering the one skill every AI agent framework depends on: asynchronous Python. You’ll learn that, while it is built by OpenAI, the OpenAI Agents SDK is an open source framework that works with almost any model, comes in both Python and TypeScript versions, and is the production-ready successor to OpenAI’s experimental Swarm. You’ll see where it fits in the agent frameworks landscape, between no framework, the lightweight options, and the more opinionated ones, and why building agents with the OpenAI Agents SDK keeps abstractions to a minimum with a simple, code-first approach.