Ai Sdk
This is the official documentation skill for Vercel's AI SDK, and it's genuinely comprehensive. You get coverage of the core APIs like generateText, streamText, and embed, plus the React hooks (useChat, useCompletion) that make building chat interfaces straightforward. The skill explicitly warns you that your training data is outdated, which is refreshing honesty. It covers agent patterns, RAG systems, and structured output across multiple providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The type safety story is solid with InferAgentUIMessage for end-to-end typing. If you're building anything AI-powered in the Next.js ecosystem, this saves you from constantly switching to browser docs.
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Install
$ npx -y skills add vercel/ai --skill ai-sdk --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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What the AI SDK Is
The AI SDK by Vercel (the ai package on npm) is a TypeScript toolkit for building AI applications. It provides a unified API across model providers for text generation, structured output, tool calling, agents, embeddings, and framework UI integrations.
- Repository: https://github.com/vercel/ai
- Documentation: https://ai-sdk.dev/docs
Critical: Do Not Trust Your Own Memory
Whatever you remember about the AI SDK is likely outdated. The SDK changes frequently across versions - APIs are renamed, removed, and added. Your training data almost certainly contains obsolete APIs, deprecated patterns, and model IDs that no longer exist. UI hooks like useChat are among the most frequently changed APIs, so be especially careful with client code.
Never write AI SDK code from memory. Always verify every API, option, and pattern against the documentation and source code for the version that is actually installed in the project.
Use the Bundled, Version-Matched Docs
The ai package ships its full documentation and source code inside node_modules. These always match the installed version, so trust them over anything you remember.
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- github.com/vercel/ai
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- Frontend Development, DevOps & CI/CD, AI & Agent Building, Cloud & Infrastructure
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