Project Title

swarm — Ergonomic, Lightweight Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework

Overview

Swarm is an educational framework developed by OpenAI that focuses on lightweight, highly controllable, and easily testable multi-agent coordination and execution. It utilizes two primitive abstractions: Agents and handoffs, allowing developers to build scalable, real-world solutions with a simple learning curve. Swarm is designed for situations dealing with a large number of independent capabilities and instructions that are difficult to encode into a single prompt.

Key Features

Lightweight and scalable multi-agent orchestration
Easy-to-use abstractions for agent coordination and handoffs
Stateless operation between calls, similar to the Chat Completions API
Educational resource for developers curious about multi-agent orchestration

Use Cases

Handling complex customer service requests in an airline context
Developing a customer service bot with a user interface agent and a help center agent
Creating a personal shopping agent that can help with making sales and refunding orders

Advantages

Focuses on making agent coordination and execution lightweight and controllable
Provides a simple learning curve for developers new to multi-agent orchestration
Allows for the expression of rich dynamics between tools and networks of agents

Limitations / Considerations

Swarm is an experimental and educational framework, not intended for production use
It is now replaced by the OpenAI Agents SDK, which is a production-ready evolution of Swarm
Swarm Agents are not related to Assistants in the Assistants API and are stateless between calls

OpenAI Agents SDK: A production-ready evolution of Swarm, featuring key improvements and actively maintained by the OpenAI team.
Ray: A framework for building distributed applications, which can be used for multi-agent orchestration but with a different focus and approach.
Distributed Data Parallel: A PyTorch library for distributed training, which can be used for orchestrating multiple agents in a different context.

Basic Information

GitHub: https://github.com/openai/swarm
Stars: 20,103
License: Unknown
Last Commit: 2025-07-16

📊 Project Information

Project Name: swarm
GitHub URL: https://github.com/openai/swarm
Programming Language: Python
⭐ Stars: 20,103
🍴 Forks: 2,147
📅 Created: 2024-02-22
🔄 Last Updated: 2025-07-16

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