Why does Agent.name accept non-string values at runtime?

[Mohsin-Raza-developer]

Hi team,

In the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Agent class has a name parameter with type str. However, if I pass a non-string value like an integer or a list, the code still runs without any error:

from agents import Agent, Runner

agent = Agent(name=123, instructions="You are a helpful assistant")
result = Runner.run_sync(agent, "Write a haiku about recursion in programming.")
print(result.final_output)

Why is this possible? Shouldn't the SDK enforce that name must be a string at runtime?

[AreebaZafarChohan]

I can work on this. I’ve added runtime type checks for Agent.name and tests (raising TypeError for non-string, ValueError for empty string). Should I open a PR?

[seratch]

v0.2.7 and newer versions have the input validation.

[Mohsin-Raza-developer]

Thank you for the clarification!