OpenAI Ships Agents API Upgrades Aimed at Unsupervised, Long-Running Jobs

Auto Review, Async Compaction, and time awareness landed this week — a feature set that reads as a direct answer to the reliability problems plaguing agent deployments.

OpenAI used the week to push its beta Agents API closer to the thing everyone actually wants: agents that can run long jobs without constant babysitting. According to @OpenAIDevs, the shipped batch includes Auto Review, Async Compaction, Time awareness, Tool Updates, and better prompt-cache awareness. Individually these sound like plumbing. Together they tell a clear strategic story.

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