ai-sdk-6-skills_skill

Overview

This skill explains AI SDK 6 Beta features and practical patterns for building agents, using Groq (Llama) models, and integrating the Vercel AI Gateway. It highlights key breaking changes from v5, migration tips, and recommended setups for Next.js 16, Prisma 7, and @ai-sdk packages. The goal is to help engineers adopt the new agent abstraction, structured outputs, tool approval flows, reranking, and provider routing quickly.

How this skill works

I summarize the new AI SDK 6 primitives and show how to wire them into typical app flows. The content covers ToolLoopAgent for unified agent control, tool execution approval for user-confirmed actions, structured output generation, and reranking for search relevance. It also details Groq provider usage (open-weight Llama models, structured outputs, reasoning formats) and how to route calls or BYOK through the Vercel AI Gateway.

When to use it

• When migrating an existing AI SDK v5 project to v6 and adopting consolidated agent patterns.
• When you need tool-level approval flows for payments, destructive actions, or privacy-sensitive operations.
• When you want deterministic structured outputs or to combine tool calling with typed schemas.
• When using open-weight Groq/Llama models for local or cost-effective inference.
• When you need a single gateway to access many providers, enable BYOK, or enforce provider routing and zero data retention.

Best practices

• Pin beta package versions during early adoption to avoid unexpected breaking changes in patch releases.
• Replace ad-hoc agent logic with ToolLoopAgent to centralize state, tool loops, and execution flow.
• Use zod schemas for tool inputs and Output.object for structured agent outputs to validate and parse results reliably.
• Require needsApproval on tools that perform irreversible or billable actions and implement a clear client-side approval UI.
• For production Gateway use, set up BYOK and provider routing to match privacy, cost, and latency requirements.

Example use cases

• A customer support agent that calls knowledgebase lookup tools, reranks results, and returns a typed summary with recommendations.
• A billing UI that requests user approval before running a payment tool and stores approval events in Prisma 7.
• Use Groq llama-3.3-70b for on-prem style inference with structured recipe generation and image multimodal prompts.
• Route requests through Vercel AI Gateway to fallback across providers and track usage per end-user and feature tag.
• Integrate reasoning models for chain-of-thought style tasks with configurable reasoningFormat and effort settings.