Overview
Swarm is an experimental, educational toolkit from OpenAI for exploring lightweight multi-agent orchestration. It focuses on client-side coordination of Agents and handoffs, offering primitives to build workflows composed of Agents, instructions, and functions.
Key features
- Lightweight Agent abstraction with instructions and callable functions.
- Function calling and handoffs to coordinate multi-agent workflows.
- Multiple example projects (triage, weather, airline, etc.) for quick experimentation and evaluation.
Use cases
- Learning and prototyping multi-agent coordination and orchestration.
- Local testing and strategy validation without relying on server-side state.
Technical details
- Implemented in Python (requires Python 3.10+).
- Uses the Chat Completions API as the execution backend and does not persist state between runs.
- Converts Python functions to JSON Schema to support tool calling and parameter validation.