OpenAI has announced the Agents API, a managed service for building and launching cloud agents. The service is powered by the Codex harness, which provides the underlying infrastructure for agent behavior.
According to the announcement, the API handles orchestration, long-running sessions, and tool use. This means developers can offload these operational concerns rather than building them from scratch.
The announcement positions the Agents API as a way to bring Codex-based agent capabilities into production cloud environments. No further technical details or benchmarks were provided in the source.