AI Transport roadmap
AI Transport is under active development with new releases shipping regularly
Ably updates the roadmap as customers say what they need. The fastest way to influence it is to contact Ably, explaining what you are trying to build and where AI Transport can help you.
Delivered
Available today.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Resumable token streaming | The response streams over an Ably channel rather than a single HTTP request, so a dropped connection resumes mid-response, and a reconnecting client receives what it missed. |
| Connection resilience | Realtime delivery over WebSocket with automatic fallback to HTTP streaming and long-polling, so streams survive proxies, firewalls, and unreliable networks. |
| Multi-device continuity | The same conversation opens on any device the user picks up, with the response streaming to every device. |
| Persistent history and replay | Conversations survive disconnects and stay available as history, for resumption, audit, and review. |
| Joined history | A client replays the channel from the serial your own store holds, so every message appears once, in order, before live messages. |
| Drop-in framework integration | Codecs for the Vercel AI SDK, the OpenAI Responses API and AG-UI, and a custom codec for everything else. |
| Shared live state and presence | Agent presence and shared live state on the conversation's channel. |
| Durable execution | Pair AI Transport with a workflow engine such as Temporal or Vercel WDK, so a process crash mid-response retries the agent's work instead of abandoning the turn. |
| Enterprise-ready platform | SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA, on Ably's realtime platform. |
Now
Actively building.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Human and AI handover | Transfer a conversation between an AI and a human agent and back again using the AI Transport SDK, with live supervision and escalation. |
| Anthropic support | A native Anthropic integration, so more of the ecosystem is a drop-in. |
Next
Coming up, and unlikely to change.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Increased language support | AI Transport SDK implementation in Python. |
| Ably Chat SDK integration | A clean path from chat use cases into AI Transport. |
Future
Planned and exploring. If you care about one of these features then contact Ably, explaining what you are trying to build and where AI Transport can help you.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Increased language support | AI Transport SDK implementation in Java, Swift, Kotlin, and .NET. |
| Expanded ecosystem support | Native integrations for Gemini, LangChain and LangGraph, TanStack AI, AG-UI, Vue, and Svelte, so more of the ecosystem is a drop-in. |
| Sub-agent orchestration | Better primitives for coordinating multiple sub-agents in a single run. |
| More durable-execution integrations | Inngest and trigger.dev. |
| Multimodal | Audio and video delivery, and integrations with voice providers. |
| Joined history for every subscription | Gap-free history replay for a subscription after the first on a transport, and bounded replay buffers. |