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Agents Results and state

Explains how to handle agent outputs by selecting appropriate result surfaces for user answers, session management, handoffs, and managing interrupted runs via state snapshots.

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Agents Results and state

Explains how to handle agent outputs by selecting appropriate result surfaces for user answers, session management, handoffs, and managing interrupted runs via state snapshots.

When To Use

Use when you need to implement agent continuation strategies, manage handoffs between specialists, or handle interrupted runs that require human approval via state serialization.

Reference Files

File	Contains	Use For
`SKILL.md`	Entry point: scope, routing table, and workflow.	Start here.
`docs/agents-results-and-state-workflow-guide.md`	A guide explaining the different result surfaces, state management, and interruption handling when running OpenAI agents.	Questions about a guide explaining the different result surfaces, state management, and interruption handling when running OpenAI age...

What This Skill Covers

When you run an agent, the result is more than just the final answer. It's also the handoff boundary, the next-turn continuation surface, and the resumable s...
Main sections: Choose the result surface you need, What to carry into the next turn, Interrupted runs return state, not a final answer, Richer item and diagnostics surfaces, Next steps.

Workflow

Open the most relevant file under docs/ for the exact documented workflow and wording.
Open schemas/ files for exact structured contracts.
Open examples/ files for concrete requests, commands, snippets, and manifests.
Do not add behavior or configuration that is not present in the attached source files.

Canonical source: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents/results.md