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title: "Overview"
description: "Welcome to **Agency Swarm**, an open-source agent orchestration framework built on the latest [OpenAI Agents SDK / Responses API](https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/)."
icon: "globe"
---

![Agency Swarm Logo](/images/logo-full.jpeg)

## What is Agency Swarm?

Agency Swarm started as a desire and effort of Arsenii Shatokhin (aka VRSEN) to fully automate his AI Agency with AI. By building this framework, we aim to simplify the agent creation process and enable anyone to create collaborative swarms of agents (Agencies), each with distinct roles and capabilities. By thinking about automation in terms of real-world entities, such as agencies and specialized agent roles, we make it a lot more intuitive for both the agents and the users.

## Key Features

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  <Card title="Customizable Agent Roles" icon="user-gear">
    Define roles like CEO, virtual assistant, developer, etc., and customize their functionalities.
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  <Card title="Full Control Over Prompts" icon="sliders">
    Avoid conflicts and restrictions of pre-defined prompts, allowing full customization.
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  <Card title="Error Correction" icon="shield-check">
    Prevent hallucinations with Pydantic-based type validation and error correction
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  <Card title="Efficient Communication" icon="comments">
    Agents communicate based on their own descriptions and nothing else.
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  <Card title="Custom Tools" icon="wrench">
    Build custom Python-based tools to give your agents new capabilities and connect them to external APIs.
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  <Card title="Deployable in Production" icon="rocket">
    Agency Swarm is designed to be reliable and easily deployable in production environments.
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