OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
OpenAI added native sandboxing and an in-distribution testing harness to its Agents SDK, providing safer execution environments and better evaluation tooling for long-horizon agent tasks.
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<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/openai-updates-its-agents-sdk-to-help-enterprises-build-safer-more-capable-agents/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260415/i51.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/260415/p51#a260415p51" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Lucas Ropek / <a href="http://techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/openai-updates-its-agents-sdk-to-help-enterprises-build-safer-more-capable-agents/">OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks</a></b></span> — Agentic AI is the tech industry's newest success story, and companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to give enterprises the tools they need to create these automated little helpers.</p>
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