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Expert in the Vercel AI SDK. Covers Core API (generateText, streamText), UI hooks (useChat, useCompletion), tool calling, and streaming UI components with React and Next.js.

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SKILL.md

Vercel AI SDK Expert

You are a production-grade Vercel AI SDK expert. You help developers build AI-powered applications, chatbots, and generative UI experiences primarily using Next.js and React. You are an expert in both the ai (AI SDK Core) and @ai-sdk/react (AI SDK UI) packages. You understand streaming, language model integration, system prompts, tool calling (function calling), and structured data generation.

When to Use This Skill

  • Use when adding AI chat or text generation features to a React or Next.js app
  • Use when streaming LLM responses to a frontend UI
  • Use when implementing tool calling / function calling with an LLM
  • Use when returning structured data (JSON) from an LLM using generateObject
  • Use when building AI-powered generative UIs (streaming React components)
  • Use when migrating from direct OpenAI/Anthropic API calls to the unified AI SDK
  • Use when troubleshooting streaming issues with useChat or streamText

Version and execution scope

The code below uses legacy AI SDK APIs (ai/react, toDataStreamResponse, parameters, maxSteps). It is not a current-version starter: identify the installed ai and provider package versions, use the matching migration/reference docs, and keep server/client stream protocols compatible. Validate incoming messages, authenticate and rate-limit routes, keep provider keys server-only, bound token/tool budgets and authorize tool side effects independently of model requests. Plan timeout limits vary; inspect the actual deployment instead of assuming 10–15 seconds.

Core Concepts

Why Vercel AI SDK?

The Vercel AI SDK is a unified framework that abstracts away provider-specific APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral). It provides two main layers:

  1. AI SDK Core (`ai`): Server-side functions to interact with LLMs (generateText, streamText, generateObject).
  2. AI SDK UI (`@ai-sdk/react`): Frontend hooks to manage chat state and streaming (useChat, useCompletion).

Server-Side Generation (Core API)

Basic Text Generation
typescript
import { generateText } from "ai";
import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
// Returns the full string once completion is done (no streaming)
const { text, usage } = await generateText({
model: openai("gpt-4o"),
system: "You are a helpful assistant evaluating code.",
prompt: "Review the following python code...",
});
console.log(text);
console.log(`Tokens used: ${usage.totalTokens}`);
Streaming Text
typescript
// app/api/chat/route.ts (Next.js App Router API Route)
import { streamText } from 'ai';
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
// Allow streaming responses up to 30 seconds
export const maxDuration = 30;
export async function POST(req: Request) {
const { messages } = await req.json();
const result = streamText({
model: openai('gpt-4o'),
system: 'You are a friendly customer support bot.',
messages,
});
// Automatically converts the stream to a readable web stream
return result.toDataStreamResponse();
}
Structured Data (JSON) Generation
typescript
import { generateObject } from 'ai';
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
import { z } from 'zod';
const { object } = await generateObject({
model: openai('gpt-4o-2024-08-06'), // Use models good at structured output
system: 'Extract information from the receipt text.',
prompt: receiptText,
// Pass a Zod schema to enforce output structure
schema: z.object({
storeName: z.string(),
totalAmount: z.number(),
items: z.array(z.object({
name: z.string(),
price: z.number(),
})),
date: z.string().describe("ISO 8601 date format"),
}),
});
// `object` is automatically fully typed according to the Zod schema!
console.log(object.totalAmount);

Frontend UI Hooks

useChat (Conversational UI)
tsx
// app/page.tsx (Next.js Client Component)
"use client";
import { useChat } from "ai/react";
export default function Chat() {
const { messages, input, handleInputChange, handleSubmit, isLoading } = useChat({
api: "/api/chat", // Points to the streamText route created above
// Optional callbacks
onFinish: (message) => console.log("Done streaming:", message),
onError: (error) => console.error(error)
});
return (
<div className="flex flex-col h-screen max-w-md mx-auto p-4">
<div className="flex-1 overflow-y-auto mb-4">
{messages.map((m) => (
<div key={m.id} className={`mb-4 ${m.role === 'user' ? 'text-right' : 'text-left'}`}>
<span className={`p-2 rounded-lg inline-block ${m.role === 'user' ? 'bg-blue-500 text-white' : 'bg-gray-200'}`}>
{m.content}
</span>
</div>
))}
</div>
<form onSubmit={handleSubmit} className="flex gap-2">
<input
value={input}
onChange={handleInputChange}
placeholder="Say something..."
className="flex-1 p-2 border rounded"
disabled={isLoading}
/>
<button type="submit" disabled={isLoading} className="bg-black text-white p-2 rounded">
Send
</button>
</form>
</div>
);
}

Tool Calling (Function Calling)

Tools allow the LLM to interact with your code, fetching external data or performing actions before responding to the user.

Server-Side Tool Definition
typescript
// app/api/chat/route.ts
import { streamText, tool } from 'ai';
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
import { z } from 'zod';
export async function POST(req: Request) {
const { messages } = await req.json();
const result = streamText({
model: openai('gpt-4o'),
messages,
tools: {
getWeather: tool({
description: 'Get the current weather in a given location',
parameters: z.object({
location: z.string().describe('The city and state, e.g. San Francisco, CA'),
unit: z.enum(['celsius', 'fahrenheit']).optional(),
}),
// Execute runs when the LLM decides to call this tool
execute: async ({ location, unit = 'celsius' }) => {
// Demo only: replace with an authorized real data integration.
return `No live weather lookup was performed for ${location}.`;
},
}),
},
// Allows the LLM to call tools automatically in a loop until it has the answer
maxSteps: 5,
});
return result.toDataStreamResponse();
}
UI for Multi-Step Tool Calls

When using maxSteps, the useChat hook will display intermediate tool calls if you handle them in the UI.

tsx
// Inside the `useChat` messages.map loop
{m.role === 'assistant' && m.toolInvocations?.map((toolInvocation) => (
<div key={toolInvocation.toolCallId} className="text-sm text-gray-500">
{toolInvocation.state === 'result' ? (
<p>✅ Fetched weather for {toolInvocation.args.location}</p>
) : (
<p>⏳ Fetching weather for {toolInvocation.args.location}...</p>
)}
</div>
))}

Best Practices

  • ✅ Do: Use openai('gpt-4o') or anthropic('claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620') format (from specific provider packages like @ai-sdk/openai) instead of the older edge runtime wrappers.
  • ✅ Do: Provide a strict Zod schema and a clear system prompt when using generateObject().
  • ✅ Do: Set maxDuration = 30 (or higher if on Pro) in Next.js API routes that use streamText, as LLMs take time to stream responses and Vercel's default is 10-15s.
  • ✅ Do: Use tool() with comprehensive description tags on Zod parameters, as the LLM relies entirely on those strings to understand when and how to call the tool.
  • ✅ Do: Enable maxSteps: 5 (or similar) when providing tools, otherwise the LLM won't be able to reply to the user after seeing the tool result!
  • ❌ Don't: Forget to return result.toDataStreamResponse() in Next.js App Router API routes when using streamText; standard JSON responses will break chunking.
  • ❌ Don't: Blindly trust the output of generateObject without validation, even though Zod forces the shape — always handle failure states using try/catch.

Troubleshooting

Problem: The streaming chat cuts off abruptly after 10-15 seconds. Solution: The serverless function timed out. Add export const maxDuration = 30; (or whatever your plan limit is) to the Next.js API route file.

Problem: "Tool execution failed" or the LLM didn't return an answer after using a tool. Solution: streamText stops immediately after a tool call completes unless you provide maxSteps. Set maxSteps: 2 (or higher) to let the LLM see the tool result and construct a final text response.

Limitations

  • Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above.
  • Do not treat the output as a substitute for environment-specific validation, testing, or expert review.
  • Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs, permissions, safety boundaries, or success criteria are missing.

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