[Release] openai/openai-agents-python v0.17.7: v0.17.7

OpenAI Agents Python SDK v0.17.7 introduces configurable WebSocket limits, buffered Chat Completions tool-call streaming, and numerous stability improvements. Key fixes address sandbox buffering, message cleanup, database atomicity, guardrail task cancellation, and multi-agent tool dispatch. The release also improves error handling, PTY output collection, and documentation with contributions from 10 new community members.

Key Points

• •Expose configurable WebSocket max_size limit for better resource management in agent communications
• •Add buffered Chat Completions tool-call streaming for improved performance and reliability
• •Reduce sandbox sink buffering and spool timeouts to optimize resource usage
• •Clean up branch-only messages when deleting branches to prevent orphaned data
• •Make AdvancedSQLiteSession add_items atomic to ensure database consistency
• •Cancel sibling guardrail tasks when one raises to prevent cascading failures
• •Fix empty list/tuple tool output handling that was incorrectly dropped via all([]) == True
• •Wake PTY output collection on process exit (E2B) to ensure complete output capture
• •Prevent ambiguous Realtime multi-agent tool dispatch with improved routing logic
• •Recursively extract HTTP errors from nested ExceptionGroups for better error reporting

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