OpenAI's code points to managed agents as Agent Builder winds down
TestingCatalog found references to hosted and self-managed environments, skills and plugins ahead of OpenAI's September 29th DevDay.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: TestingCatalog
Why it matters
A managed runtime would let OpenAI sell the infrastructure around long-running agents, where pricing, permissions and reliability matter as much as model quality. Connecting those agents to ads could also turn ChatGPT from a discovery channel into the place where commercial workflows are completed.
This time, it wasn't us: Alexey Shabanov at TestingCatalog found references in OpenAI's codebase to a managed agent service with configurable environments, skills, plugins and deployment controls, according to his report published Sunday. The findings point to an expansion of OpenAI's agent platform for developers and businesses at DevDay later this month.…