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applications and AI agents. This document covers the core architectural
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components and concepts.
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- ## Overview
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+ ## Design Principles
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+ AG-UI is designed to be lightweight and minimally opinionated, making it easy to
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+ integrate with a wide range of agent implementations. The protocol's flexibility
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+ comes from its simple requirements:
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+ 1 . ** Event-Driven Communication** : Agents need to emit any of the 16
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+ standardized event types during execution, creating a stream of updates that
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+ clients can process.
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+ 2 . ** Bidirectional Interaction** : Agents accept input from users, enabling
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+ collaborative workflows where humans and AI work together seamlessly.
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+ The protocol includes a built-in middleware layer that maximizes compatibility
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+ in two key ways:
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+ - ** Flexible Event Structure** : Events don't need to match AG-UI's format
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+ exactly—they just need to be AG-UI-compatible. This allows existing agent
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+ frameworks to adapt their native event formats with minimal effort.
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+ - ** Transport Agnostic** : AG-UI doesn't mandate how events are delivered,
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+ supporting various transport mechanisms including Server-Sent Events (SSE),
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+ webhooks, WebSockets, and more. This flexibility lets developers choose the
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+ transport that best fits their architecture.
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+ This pragmatic approach makes AG-UI easy to adopt without requiring major
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+ changes to existing agent implementations or frontend applications.
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+ ## Architectural Overview
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AG-UI follows a client-server architecture that standardizes communication
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between agents and applications:
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