OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript)
Lightweight framework for building multi-agent AI workflows.
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How OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript) is used
OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript) is a dependency in 6 of the 6,211 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,980); counting those, it appears in 214 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is LangChain.js (37 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Zod (80.4%), OpenAI (51.4%), dotenv (48.1%).
OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript) popularity over time
Gid Score 57: downloads 65, use in agent projects 62, GitHub stars 34, downloads trend 66 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript)
| Zod | 80.4% of OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript) projects · 3.2× more than average |
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| OpenAI | 51.4% of OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript) projects · 11.2× more than average |
| dotenv | 48.1% of OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript) projects · 3.1× more than average |
| TypeScript | 86.4% of OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript) projects · 1.6× more than average |
| react-markdown | 21.5% of OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript) projects · 5.5× more than average |
| React | 52.8% of OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript) projects · 1.6× more than average |
| Next.js | 36.0% of OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript) projects · 2.0× more than average |
| AI SDK | 16.8% of OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript) projects · 3.8× more than average |
From all 214 projects in our scan that use OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript), including the dependency samples.
Agent Skills for OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript)
| agents-generator from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills | Generate project-specific AGENTS.md and companion rules by analyzing a codebase. Supports full, minimal, update, and dry-run modes with package-manager detecti…npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill agents-generator |
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| agents-sdk from midudev/autoskills | Build, debug, or review Cloudflare Agents SDK applications using the agents package.npx skills add midudev/autoskills --skill agents-sdk |
| agents-sdk from cloudflare/skills | Build, debug, or review Cloudflare Agents SDK applications using the agents package.npx skills add cloudflare/skills --skill agents-sdk |
| agents-best-practices from DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices | Use this skill when designing, generating an MVP blueprint for, auditing, troubleshooting, refactoring, or explaining an agentic harness for any domain. Covers…npx skills add DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices --skill agents-best-practices |
| agents-sdk from fcakyon/claude-codex-settings | Build, debug, or review Cloudflare Agents SDK applications using the agents package.npx skills add fcakyon/claude-codex-settings --skill agents-sdk |
Skills teach your coding agent how to use OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript) well. Official means the pack comes from the same GitHub account as OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript). Read a skill before installing it: it can include scripts. All Agent Skills
Install
| Package | npm install @openai/agents |
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| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (125), Next.js (76), Python (10), PHP (2) |
| Example projects | vijaythecoder/clueless, CarlosZiegler/fullstack-start-template, thefalconry/talon, tomblomfield/voicemail, Diddysister/axiceshi |
Alternatives to OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript)
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside OpenAI Agents SDK (JavaScript) are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LangChain.js npm Build applications with LLMs using composable abstractions for chains, agents and memory. |
70 | 37 (0.8%) | 3.6M | 18.3K | MIT |
| Google Genkit npm AI framework for building, testing and monitoring generative AI applications. |
42 | 12 (0.2%) | 130K | 6,533 | Apache-2.0 |
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