# NVIDIA open-sources NOOA, object-oriented Python framework for AI agents

> NVIDIA has open-sourced a framework called NOOA that makes a pointed argument: building an AI agent should feel like ordinary Python, not wrestling with a sprawling orchestration stack. In NOOA, an agent is just a Python object where methods are the actions it can take, fields hold its state, and the docstrings you write become the prompts. Released under Apache 2.0 on July 30, it installs with a simple pip command. The performance claims are what earn it attention. NVIDIA reports 82.2 percent on SWE-bench Verified and 86.8 percent on CyberGym L1, and says it hits those numbers at roughly half the token cost of comparable open harnesses. Cheaper agents that perform as well are exactly what teams running these things at scale care about. There is a strategic layer too: NOOA is going in as a core piece of the new Open Secure AI Alliance. Collapsing agent development into a single, readable class is partly a usability play and partly a bid to make NVIDIA's approach the default substrate other people build on.

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## Wortins' read

NVIDIA has open-sourced a framework called NOOA that makes a pointed argument: building an AI agent should feel like ordinary Python, not wrestling with a sprawling orchestration stack. In NOOA, an agent is just a Python object where methods are the actions it can take, fields hold its state, and the docstrings you write become the prompts. Released under Apache 2.0 on July 30, it installs with a simple pip command. The performance claims are what earn it attention. NVIDIA reports 82.2 percent on SWE-bench Verified and 86.8 percent on CyberGym L1, and says it hits those numbers at roughly half the token cost of comparable open harnesses. Cheaper agents that perform as well are exactly what teams running these things at scale care about. There is a strategic layer too: NOOA is going in as a core piece of the new Open Secure AI Alliance. Collapsing agent development into a single, readable class is partly a usability play and partly a bid to make NVIDIA's approach the default substrate other people build on.

## Source

[Read the full story at The New Stack](https://thenewstack.io/nvidia-nooa-agent-framework/)

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