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Chat SDK brings agents to your users

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Date Published
Author
Dan Fein
Word Count
1,656
Language
English
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Summary

In an effort to streamline workflow augmentation through chatbots, a company developed AI agents that initially faced integration challenges across various platforms such as Slack, Discord, GitHub, and Linear. This led to the creation of Chat SDK, a TypeScript library that allows developers to build bots operable across multiple platforms from a single codebase, using adapters to handle platform-specific behaviors. The tool abstracts messaging API quirks, enabling seamless deployment and interaction across platforms like Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Google Chat. Chat SDK also facilitates real-time AI streaming and offers pluggable state management with support for Redis and PostgreSQL. As a significant advancement, it extends its "write once, deploy everywhere" model to WhatsApp, accommodating messages, reactions, and multimedia. Open-source and in public beta, Chat SDK aims to unify and simplify the deployment of chatbots, offering documentation and best practices to aid developers in creating efficient multi-platform bots.