Discover how to build and deploy agents in sandboxes that are both safe and cost-effective. In this video, we demonstrate Temporal’s ongoing partnership with OpenAI, showcasing new support for agents that can execute tools in isolated environments, keeping your local environment secure while providing durable execution. 

What you’ll learn:
- Sandbox Agents 101: Understand how to run agent tool calls on external machines rather than your local product environment.
- Seamless Backend Switching: See how to transition a single agent workflow between local environments and cloud providers like Daytona, Docker, E2B, or Modal.
- Durability Guarantees: Learn how Temporal ensures your agent can resume exactly where it left off, even if a server goes down halfway through a task.
- Cost Efficiency: See how sandboxes are automatically started only when needed and shut down immediately after a task is complete to minimize costs.
- Code Deep Dive: Get a look at the OpenAI Agents SDK integration, including how to configure the temporal-sandbox-client and manage file system "snapshots".

Key Features:
- Creating and testing a FastAPI server within a remote sandbox.
- Repopulating a sandbox with the file system from a previous session.
- Using the Open Agents Plugin to manage multiple sandbox clients simultaneously.
- Combining Temporal’s reliability with OpenAI’s agent capabilities allows you to build with higher confidence and better security.

Explore the Code: https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/tree/main/examples/sandbox/extensions/temporal

Dig into the code and start building your own durable sandbox agents today.

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A demo showcasing Temporal's integration with the OpenAI Agents SDK to support sandbox agents — AI agents that execute tools on isolated remote machines (Daytona, Docker, E2B, Modal) rather than the host machine. The demo walks through building a UI-driven agent that creates files and spins up a FastAPI server, switching seamlessly between local and cloud sandbox backends. Temporal's durability guarantees ensure the agent workflow can resume if interrupted, while sandboxes are spun up on-demand and torn down when no longer needed, keeping costs low. Code walkthrough shows how to configure the TemporalSandboxClient and specify backends via an OpenAgents plugin.

Demo: Temporal + OpenAI Agents SDK Sandbox Support