Guidance for using the Vercel AI SDK to add AI features to applications. It covers model conversations, generated text, structured results, tool calls, agents, streaming, embeddings, and connections to AI providers.

It helps build chat and text-generation features, call tools, create agents, stream results, generate embeddings, rerank results, and produce images.

It reduces the risk of using outdated programming interfaces and helps keep implementation aligned with the installed SDK documentation.

ai-sdk — Skill for Claude Code by build-with-dhiraj

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit --skill ai-sdk

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vercel-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 6 commands, 3 agents, 1 MCP server.

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README.md

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 5,902 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00053	$0.05902
Opus 5.5	$0.00021	$0.02361
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.01180
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00590

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b5b03460c041, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-sdk scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

7. **Always fetch current model IDs** - Never use model IDs from memory. Before writing code that uses a model, run `curl -s https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models | jq -r '[.data[] | select(.id | startswith("provider/")

Plugins/vercel-marketplace-source/skills/ai-sdk/SKILL.md · 442 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 442 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prerequisites

Before searching docs, check if node_modules/ai/docs/ exists. If not, install only the ai package using the project's package manager (e.g., pnpm add ai).

Do not install other packages at this stage. Provider packages (e.g., @ai-sdk/openai) and client packages (e.g., @ai-sdk/react) should be installed later when needed based on user requirements.

Critical: Do Not Trust Internal Knowledge

Everything you know about the AI SDK is outdated or wrong. Your training data contains obsolete APIs, deprecated patterns, and incorrect usage.

When working with the AI SDK:

Ensure ai package is installed (see Prerequisites)
Search node_modules/ai/docs/ and node_modules/ai/src/ for current APIs
If not found locally, search ai-sdk.dev documentation (instructions below)
Never rely on memory - always verify against source code or docs
useChat has changed significantly - check Common Errors before writing client code
When deciding which model and provider to use (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), use the Vercel AI Gateway provider unless the user specifies otherwise. See AI Gateway Reference for usage details.
Always fetch current model IDs - Never use model IDs from memory. Before writing code that uses a model, run curl -s https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models | jq -r '[.data[] | select(.id | startswith("provider/")) | .id] | reverse | .[]' (replacing provider with the relevant provider like anthropic, openai, or google) to get the full list with newest models first. Use the model with the highest version number (e.g., claude-sonnet-4-5 over claude-sonnet-4 over claude-3-5-sonnet).
Run typecheck after changes to ensure code is correct
Be minimal - Only specify options that differ from defaults. When unsure of defaults, check docs or source rather than guessing or over-specifying.

If you cannot find documentation to support your answer, state that explicitly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 442 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago First seen · 442 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A b5b03460c041

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ai-sdk is a skill published in the GitHub repository build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit (5 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 5,902 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-21.

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