Background agent

[cagrigit-hub]

Please read this first

• Have you read the docs?Agents SDK docs - Yes, I read
• Have you searched for related issues? Others may have had similar requests - Yeah there are similars, but in different context

Describe the feature

The feature i am asking for is just a simple background agent, so when i send request to the agent right now with run option, it opens a connection between the server and that connection stays for a time and timeouts. But actually i only care for final result, and the task of agent tooks too much time more than 10 minutes etc.

So I want a background agent feature, that just creates some thread and run on that thread and we can just check

agent.is_finished periodically etc.

[cagrigit-hub]

Btw my current solution to this is,

Creating conversation, passing that conversation id into my agent, and long polling that convo id, checking the latest message status, probably there are better ways to handle this (creating thread etc?) but this fixes my problem for now

[seratch]

Thanks for sharing this feedback. While Responses API already provides its background mode for a single LLM call (+built-in tools,. hosted MCP server tools), this Agents SDK does not yet provide the equivalent feature for a whole agent loop.

Agent loop could include local function tool calls, so the implementation may not be that simple. That said, we'll continue exploring viable solutions for the use case.

[github-actions]

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