OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday announced the launch ofย AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deployingย AI agents,ย at the firmโs Dev Day event.ย ย
โAgentKitย is a complete set of building blocks available in the open AI platform designed to help you take agents from prototype to production. It is everything you need to build, deploy, and optimize agent workflows with way less friction,โ Altman said.ย ย
The launch highlights OpenAIโs push to increase developer adoption by making agent building faster and easier. It also signals a competitive move against other AI platforms racing to offer integrated tools for building autonomous agents for enterprises that can perform complex tasks, not just respond to prompts.
AgentKitย was one of several announcements at OpenAIโs Dev Day,ย including the launch of the ability to build apps directly inside ChatGPT, which has hit 800 million weekly active users.ย ย
AgentKitย includes a few core capabilities. The first is Agent Builder, which Altmanย describedย as like Canva for building agents.ย ย
โItโs a fast, visual way to design the logic, steps, ideas,โ Altman said. โItโsย built on top of the responses API that hundreds of thousands of developers already use.โย
The second capability ofย AgentKitย isย ChatKit, which provides a simple embeddable chat interface that developers can use to bring chat experiences into their own apps.ย ย
โYou can bring your own brand, your own workflows, whatever makes your own product unique,โ Altman said.ย
Evals for Agentsย introduces tools to measure AI agent performance, including step-by-step trace grading, datasets for assessing individual agent components, automated prompt optimization, and the ability to run evaluations on external models directly from the OpenAI platform.ย
Finally,ย AgentKitย includes access to OpenAIโs connector registry, so developers can securely connect agents to internal tools and third-party systems through an โadmin control panelโ whileย maintainingย security and control.ย
To prove how easy it is to useย AgentKit, Christina Huang, an OpenAI engineer, built an entire AI workflow and two AI agents live onstage in under eight minutes.ย ย
โThis is all the stuff that we wished we had when we were trying to build our first agents,โ Altman said, noting that OpenAI has already signed on several launch partners that have already scaled agents usingย AgentKit.ย
