Unlocking Agentic RL Training for GPT-OSS: A Practical Retrospective

Back to Articles Unlocking Agentic RL Training for GPT-OSS: A Practical Retrospective Team Article Published January 27, 2026 Upvote 54 +48 Jason Zhu JasonZhu13 Follow LinkedIn Hejian Sang pb09204048 Follow LinkedIn Arup De arde171 Follow LinkedIn Rohit Jain rohjain Follow LinkedIn Yanning Chen m0m0chen Follow LinkedIn Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) extends traditional LLM training by optimizing not just a single-turn response, but an entire decision-making process learned through direct interaction with an environment during training. Unlike traditional single-turn reinforcement learning or offline preference-based methods that rely on static datasets, agentic RL trains policies by actively collecting on-policy data as the agent plans actions, invokes tools, observes outcomes, and adapts its behavior over multi-step trajectories in either simulated or real environments. This interaction-driven optimization assigns credit across long-horizon decisions, where intermediate choices such as query reformulation, tool selection, and execution order directly influence downstream success. Training follows an iterative closed loop in which the agent interacts with the environment to collect rollout trajectories, computes rewards over these trajectories, updates the policy based on observed outcomes, and then uses the updated policy to drive the next round of interaction and data collection such as GRPO or PPO algorithms.. LinkedIn is an AI-first company that's built agents to ...