Steel is a developer-centric framework designed to accelerate the creation and operation of LLM-powered agents in production environments. It offers provider-agnostic connectors for major model APIs, an in-memory and persistent memory store, built-in tool invocation patterns, automatic caching of responses, and detailed tracing for observability. Developers can define complex agent workflows, integrate custom tools (e.g., search, database queries, and external APIs), and handle streaming outputs. Steel abstracts the complexity of orchestration, allowing teams to focus on business logic and rapidly iterate on AI-driven applications.