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

DevFeed: [From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/from-model-to-agent-equipping-the-responses-api-with-a-computer-environment-6393.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://openai.com/index/equip-responses-api-computer-environment>)

Published: 2026-03-11T11:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [OpenAI News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/openai-news.md>)

Topics: [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>), [Language models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/language-models.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [apis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apis.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [command-line](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/command-line.md>), [containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containers.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [responses](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/responses.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

OpenAI describes a computer environment for Responses API agents that combines a shell tool and hosted containers. The runtime lets models propose actions while the platform executes them in an isolated workspace with files, storage, and restricted network access.

## Source excerpt

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.