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Assistants tools - OpenAI API

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Give Assistants access to OpenAI-hosted tools like Code Interpreter and Knowledge Retrieval, or build your own tools using Function calling. Usage of OpenAI-hosted tools comes at an additional fee — visit our help center article to learn more about how these tools are priced. Code Interpreter allows the Assistants API to write and run Python code in a sandboxed execution environment. This tool can process files with diverse data and formatting, and generate files with data and images of graphs. Code Interpreter allows your Assistant to run code iteratively to solve challenging code and math problems. When your Assistant writes code that fails to run, it can iterate on this code by attempting to run different code until the code execution succeeds. Code Interpreter is charged at $0.03 per session. If your Assistant calls Code Interpreter simultaneously in two different threads (e.g., one thread per end-user), two Code Interpreter sessions are created. Each session is active by default f

After achieving feature parity in the Responses API, we've deprecated the Assistants API. It will shut down on August 26, 2026. Follow the migration guide to update your integration. Learn more . Overview Assistants created using the Assistants API can be equipped with tools that allow them to perform more complex tasks or interact with your application. We provide built-in tools for assistants, but you can also define your own tools to extend their capabilities using Function Calling. The Assistants API currently supports the following tools: File Search Built-in RAG tool to process and searc

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