# OpenAI — From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-03-11T11:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/equip-responses-api-computer-environment
- Record: https://forck.live/items/232-from-model-to-agent-equipping-the-responses-api-with-a-computer-environment

OpenAI equipped the Responses API with an agent runtime that uses a shell tool and hosted containers to run secure, scalable agents with files, tools, and state.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/equip-responses-api-computer-environment:

> How OpenAI built an agent runtime using the Responses API, shell tool, and hosted containers to run secure, scalable agents with files, tools, and state.

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