Vercel ships AI SDK 7 for production-ready TypeScript agents

What's new

• Tool approvals: agents can have tool calls approved or denied before execution.
• Durable WorkflowAgent: long-running, resumable workflows with first-class timeouts.
• Reasoning control: explicit knobs over model reasoning depth.
• Tool and runtime context: shared context across an agent's steps.
• MCP Apps: declarative MCP plus skill uploads.
• Harness integrations: program Claude Code, Codex and Pi directly through the SDK.
• Telemetry and lifecycle events: first-class observability.
• Terminal UI and sandbox support for local and cloud runs.

Why it matters

The 7.0 release is explicitly positioned as the jump "from fragile prototypes to production agents." For the TS/JS ecosystem this is now the most complete production agent stack, putting pressure on alternatives like LangGraph and Mastra.

How to try it

Requires Node.js 22+ and ESM imports (.mjs or import syntax). Install with npm i ai@7 plus providers like @ai-sdk/openai or @ai-sdk/anthropic.