Ai Sdk

This is your go-to when building anything AI-powered with the Vercel AI SDK. It covers chat interfaces, streaming responses, tool calling, structured output, and agent loops across any LLM provider. The skill auto-activates when you're working in API routes, importing from the ai package, or when you mention streaming generation in your prompt. It also catches outdated patterns like useChat with the old api prop or generateObject calls and guides you to the v6 equivalents. Honestly, if you're not using the AI SDK's abstractions and instead importing OpenAI or Anthropic directly, this skill will nudge you toward the gateway pattern with better observability and failover.

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last updated: Jun 3, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add vercel/vercel-plugin --skill ai-sdk --agent claude-code

Installs 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Whatever you remember about the AI SDK is likely outdated.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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