Docs: Enhance all documentation pages with runnable code examples for clarity

[MuhammadHamidRaza]

Problem Statement:

Currently, many sections within the documentation (e.g., "

" as shown below) provide definitions and explanations of concepts, but lack concrete, runnable code examples. This often leads to significant time wastage for developers who are trying to understand how to properly use these features, including correct import paths and practical application.

This was a challenge I personally faced, and it required considerable effort to decipher usage patterns, which could have been easily avoided with direct examples.

Proposed Solution:

I propose enhancing all relevant documentation pages by adding concise, runnable code examples for each defined concept, class, or function. These examples should:

1. Clearly demonstrate usage: Show how to instantiate and interact with the feature.
2. Include necessary imports: Specify all required from ... import ... statements.
3. Illustrate common use cases: Provide practical scenarios where the feature would be applied.
4. Be self-contained: Ideally, each example should be runnable independently.

Benefits:

• Significant Time Saving: Developers will spend less time on trial-and-error and debugging, leading to a much smoother onboarding experience.
• Improved Clarity & Understanding: Visual code examples make abstract concepts easier to grasp.
• Reduced Friction: Lower the barrier to entry for new contributors and users of the SDK.
• Enhanced Developer Experience: A more user-friendly documentation directly translates to a better overall experience for anyone working with the SDK.

I'm keen to contribute to this effort. Would the maintainers be open to this initiative, and if so, would you like me to take on the task of adding these examples to various documentation pages?

[seratch]

Thanks for taking the time to share this feedback. Our documentation should be definitely improved. At the same time, we'd like to keep each page as concise as possible and avoid making the pages much longer due to having lots of general & basic (=how to instantiate class objects etc.) code snippets.

If you have some specific use case or scenario you needed code examples, can you suggest having more examples under https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/tree/main/examples instead? Also, the reference pages are auto generated by utilizing the docstrings. So, enhancing class/method comments would be appreciated too.

[muhammadhamidrazasidtechno]

Thanks for taking the time to share this feedback. Our documentation should be definitely improved. At the same time, we'd like to keep each page as concise as possible and avoid making the pages much longer due to having lots of general & basic (=how to instantiate class objects etc.) code snippets.

If you have some specific use case or scenario you needed code examples, can you suggest having more examples under https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/tree/main/examples instead? Also, the reference pages are auto generated by utilizing the docstrings. So, enhancing class/method comments would be appreciated too.

Thank you for the detailed clarification! I completely understand the goal of keeping the main documentation pages concise and avoiding excessively long code snippets.

My intention for adding examples to the core documentation wasn't to include full, complex use cases, but rather to enhance user-friendliness by providing minimal, runnable snippets. These snippets would primarily show:

1. Exactly where to import a class or function from (e.g., from agents.tool import StopAtTools).
2. How to instantiate/use it in its simplest form (e.g., agent = Agent(..., tool_use_behavior=StopAtTools(...))).

This approach would provide immediate clarity on basic usage and import paths without making the pages overly long, serving as quick "cheat sheets" for developers.

I'm definitely willing to contribute more comprehensive and specific use case examples to the examples directory as you suggested, as well as enhance the docstrings.

Would you be open to this approach for the core documentation – focusing on minimal, runnable snippets to clarify imports and basic instantiation directly on the relevant pages, alongside detailed examples in the examples folder? If this approach aligns with your vision, I would be happy to contribute by implementing these changes.

[seratch]

Thank you for your reply. Actually our TS SDK consistently has imports for all code snippets: https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-js/ So, doing similar in Python docs is great!

We may not accept all of your contributions, but please feel free to send pull requests for improving docs and examples!