AI Transport roadmap
AI Transport is under active development with new releases shipping regularly
This page shows where AI Transport is heading. The roadmap is dynamic and updated based on the feedback received from customers. The fastest way to influence this roadmap is to contact Ably, explaining what you are trying to build and where AI Transport can help you.
Delivered
Available today.
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
| Resumable token streaming | Tokens stream over a session rather than a single HTTP request, so a dropped connection resumes mid-response with nothing lost or duplicated, and a reconnecting client catches up automatically. |
| 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 session continuity | The same session opens on any device the user picks up, with the full conversation and current state. |
| Persistent history and replay | Conversations survive disconnects and stay available as history, for resumption, audit, and review. |
| Bidirectional control | Any client signals the agent through the session, so a user can cancel generation, interrupt, send again while the agent responds, and keep interacting rather than only consuming a one-way stream. |
| Conversation branching | Edit and regenerate messages, with each branch kept in the session tree. |
| Client-side tool calls and approval gates | Call client tools over the session, with human-in-the-loop approval where you need it. |
| Drop-in framework integration | A drop-in transport for the Vercel AI SDK, plus the Core SDK for everything else. |
| Shared live state and presence | Agent presence and shared session state exposed directly through the SDK. |
| Enterprise-ready platform | SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA, on Ably's realtime infrastructure. |
Now
Actively building.
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
| Durable execution support | Pair durable sessions with Temporal and Vercel Workflow SDK, so the workflow and the user experience are both crash-proof. |
| 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. |
| Mid-session steering | Redirect or steer the agent while it responds. |
| Increased ecosystem support | Native integrations for OpenAI and Anthropic, so more of the ecosystem is a drop-in. |
Next
Coming up - unlikely to change.
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
| Push notifications through the AI Transport SDK | Reach users when they are away, including iOS Live Activities for long-running tasks, without using the Pub/Sub SDK. |
| 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.
| Capability | 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. |