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OpenAI Agents SDK

OpenAI's lightweight agent framework — a small set of primitives (Agents, Handoffs, Guardrails, Sessions); provider-agnostic via LiteLLM. Evolved from Swarm.

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Pydantic AI

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Type-safe agent framework from the Pydantic team — structured outputs, dependency injection, and model-agnostic agents.

Agno

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Batteries-included agent runtime — built-in memory, knowledge/RAG, and AgentOS, a control plane you run in your own cloud. Formerly Phidata.

LangGraph

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Graph-based orchestration for stateful, multi-actor agent workflows with explicit control flow and checkpointing.

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