# Open Responses: What you need to know

DevFeed: [Open Responses: What you need to know](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/open-responses-what-you-need-to-know-7426.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/open-responses>)

Author: shaun smith; ben burtenshaw; merve; Pedro Cuenca

Published: 2026-01-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [open-responses](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-responses.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [inference-providers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference-providers.md>), [Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming.md>), [JSON](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/json.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [apis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apis.md>), [autonomous](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autonomous.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [inference-providers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference-providers.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [open-responses](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-responses.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [responses](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/responses.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

Open Responses is presented as an open inference standard for agentic workloads. The article explains how it extends and open-sources the Responses API, supports interoperable routing across inference providers, and introduces standardized configuration, semantic streaming events, extensibility, and optional reasoning fields.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.