NVIDIA AI Releases NOOA: An Object-Oriented Python Framework That Turns an AI Agent Into a Single Python Class
NVIDIA Labs has open-sourced NOOA (NVIDIA Object-Oriented Agents), a model-agnostic Python framework for building AI agents. Agent development today is split across prompt templates, tool schemas, callback code, and workflow graphs. NOOA collapses all of it into one Python class. Methods are the actions the model can take. Fields are agent state. Docstrings are prompts. Type annotations are contracts the runtime enforces. A method whose body is ... is completed at runtime by an LLM-driven loop,
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NOOA is a Python framework that simplifies AI agent development by consolidating traditionally scattered components, such as prompts, tool schemas, and workflow graphs, into a single Python class. In this framework, methods represent actions an agent can take, fields represent state, docstrings serve as prompts, and type annotations function as runtime-enforced contracts. The framework achieved notable performance results, reaching 82.2% on SWE-bench Verified and 86.8% on CyberGym L1 while using roughly half the tokens required by comparable open-source alternatives. The tool is available as an open-source Apache 2.0 release but is classified as alpha and requires code execution only within OS-level isolation containers for security reasons.
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