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The OpenAI Agents SDK is OpenAI’s framework for building agentic workflows. Braintrust instruments OpenAI Agents runs so you can inspect agent spans, tool calls, guardrails, nested model calls, and final outputs as a single trace in Braintrust.

Setup

1

Install packages

# pnpm
pnpm add braintrust @braintrust/openai-agents @openai/agents
# npm
npm install braintrust @braintrust/openai-agents @openai/agents
2

Set environment variables

.env
BRAINTRUST_API_KEY=<your-braintrust-api-key>
OPENAI_API_KEY=<your-openai-api-key>

Manual instrumentation

To instrument OpenAI Agents SDK runs, add Braintrust’s OpenAIAgentsTraceProcessor.
import { initLogger } from "braintrust";
import { OpenAIAgentsTraceProcessor } from "@braintrust/openai-agents";
import { Agent, addTraceProcessor, run } from "@openai/agents";

const logger = initLogger({
  projectName: "openai-agents-example", // Replace with your project name
  apiKey: process.env.BRAINTRUST_API_KEY,
});

addTraceProcessor(new OpenAIAgentsTraceProcessor({ logger }));

async function main() {
  const agent = new Agent({
    name: "Assistant",
    model: "gpt-5-mini",
    instructions: "You answer in one sentence.",
  });

  const result = await run(agent, "What is the capital of France?");
  console.log(result.finalOutput);
}

main().catch(console.error);
If you omit logger, the processor uses the current Braintrust span, experiment, or logger when one is active.

Examples

Braintrust captures:
  • A root task span for each agent run
  • Child spans for tool calls, guardrails, handoffs, and nested model work
  • Inputs and outputs for agent and tool spans
  • Token metrics on LLM spans when the SDK exposes usage data
  • Parent-child relationships when you run the agent inside an existing Braintrust span
You can also use OpenAI Agents SDK tasks inside Braintrust experiments. For evaluation patterns, see Create experiments.

Resources