Before You Add More Agents, Design the Control Plane

OpenAI Agents Python makes it easy to describe agents, connect tools, define handoffs, and run agentic workflows. That is useful, but it also creates a trap: teams may start by adding more agents before they define the operational boundaries that make those agents safe to use in a real repository. The hard part is usually not getting the first demo to run. The hard part is knowing when an agent should start, what it is allowed to touch, what evidence it must leave behind, when it can hand work...