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Tips for long‑running agents: Skills & Shell
It helps you design agents that stay on track over many steps.
Key Points
- 1Skills reuse procedures for consistency
- 2Shell enables dependency installs and execution
- 3Compaction preserves context in long runs
- 4Shares practical pitfalls and mitigations
OpenAI published a developer post on building long‑running agents. It covers reusable Skills, an executable Shell environment, and Compaction to preserve context efficiently. The goal is more reliable multi‑step work in production. It requires understanding the Responses API stack.