What can an AI agent do with OpenAI?

An OpenAI AI agent can list and select models, generate completions and embeddings, create and manage assistants with custom instructions, run conversation threads, upload and retrieve files, and monitor usage, on a schedule you set or triggered by events, with the plan shown to you first. Write actions like creating assistants or running completions require your approval.

Does my AI agent use my OpenAI API key?

Yes. Your connected OpenAI account credentials are used to make API calls. Usage is billed directly to your OpenAI account and is fully visible in your OpenAI dashboard.

Can I limit which models or features my agent can use?

Yes. You can scope tasks to specific models, endpoints, or operations in your task instructions. The agent only interacts with the parts of the API you direct it to.

How is this different from calling the OpenAI API directly?

Calling the API directly requires you to write and maintain code. An AI agent wraps the API in natural language: you describe what you want, and the agent handles model selection, prompt construction, error handling, and output routing, no code needed.

Developer tools

OpenAI, run by an agent.

An AI agent that runs, manages, and monitors your OpenAI models and assistants.

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What needs your approval

OpenAI never changes anything without you.

Anything that creates, edits or deletes in OpenAI waits for your approval. Approve a recurring task once and it runs unattended after that.

Connecting OpenAI

About 5 minutes

Auth: API key
Setup: About 5 minutes

Where to get access

Create an API key in the OpenAI platform dashboard.

platform.openai.com

Example tasks

Real work people hand to an agent that uses OpenAI.

run nightly batch completions against a dataset and write results to google sheets
embed new knowledge base articles and sync them to a vector store for retrieval
create and update assistants when your product releases new features
monitor model usage across your account and alert when costs exceed a threshold