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Re: Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)

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Post by swiftlyTyped » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

Hey all, I'm CEO of CopilotKit, the startup behind AG-UI and the Channels SDK. Thanks for the support!

We're pretty excited for this one -- I think channels may soon become the 3rd big form factor of LLMs (after Chat, and Codex/Claude-Code style agents).

We've worked really hard to to shrink the onboarding setup to a single prompt:

"Read https://copilotkit.ai/channels-guide.md and help the user build their first channel".

It's literally that easy. Then it will help you create a coworker-grade Slack / Teams agent backed by basically any of the top agent frameworks and harnesses out there.

Would love to get feedback, especially if you hit any snags

Re: Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)

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Post by mrud » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 6:57 PM UTC

I have been using eve - https://eve.dev/ recently and it was just really nice and well thought out. It also supports TUI, github and other non chat channels.

The integration and abstraction with sandboxes, cron etc. is very nicely done but you still can self host it.

Re: Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)

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Post by nathan_tarbert » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 7:07 PM UTC

opwizardx wrote: post #17

chandureddyvari wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From quick glance I don’t think so that’s the case. copliotkit promises ag-ui compatiblity., which means it can work with codex cli, mastra, pi, claude agents sdk and other harnesses as well (there are ag ui adapters as well). I’m actually integrating this with claude agent sdk with ag ui adapter., which i don’t think is possible with vercel chat sdk.

I first found out about chat-sdk existence when I was upgrading my nanoclaw (its core feature is that it uses claude agent sdk under the hood as the harness) to v2 and they were migrating to chat-sdk as their base layer for supporting different channels. It was pretty limited thought in terms of what I needed, so I had to through it away and build my own telegraf sdk based channel implementation for telegram, but tha…

Hey, I'm Nathan, DevRel at CopilotKit. That is a really interesting point you are making, and we've heard it a lot. One of the reasons this is so powerful is that it uses AG-UI as the transport, which enables a lot of flexibility depending on your use case. I would love to get your feedback if you decide to give it a spin.