Show HN: AG-UI Protocol – Bring Agents into Frontend Applications
Published on: 2025-07-12 11:09:57
AG-UI: The Agent-User Interaction Protocol
AG-UI is an open, lightweight, event-based protocol that standardizes how AI agents connect to front-end applications.
➡️ See demos of AG-UI-enabled applications here
AG-UI Specification
AG-UI is an open, lightweight, event-based protocol for agent-human interaction, designed simplicity & flexibility:
During agent executions, agent backends emit events compatible with one of AG-UI's 16 standard event types
Agent backends can accept one of a few simple AG-UI compatible inputs as arguments
AG-UI includes a flexible middleware layer that ensures compatibility across diverse environments:
Works with any event transport (SSE, WebSockets, webhooks, etc.)
(SSE, WebSockets, webhooks, etc.) Allows for loose event format matching, enabling broad agent and app interoperability
It also ships with a reference HTTP implementation and default connector to help teams get started fast.
Learn more at ag-ui.com
Why AG-UI?
AG-UI was developed based o
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