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Tooling
AI and LLMs
Use AI assistants to build with Ably. Access LLM-friendly markdown docs and prompts for your AI tools.
Ably CLI
Interact with your Ably apps from the command line. Manage resources, test channels, and debug connections.

Examples
From avatar stacks to live cursors, learn how deliver live chat, multiplayer collaboration features, and more.

Changelog
View all- 11 SeptJava SDK v1.8.1: LiveObjects Stable ReleaseCLIENT LIBRARY SDK IMPROVEMENTLIVEOBJECTS
The LiveObjects plugin is no longer experimental! 🎉 It’s now production-ready for applications that need to manage complex, fast-changing state across AI agents, live configurations, and collaborative experiences—with state synchronization across multiple platforms.
- 8 SeptAbly Terraform Provider v1.1.0IMPROVEMENT
This release brings a large number of improvements and stability fixes, including new data sources for querying apps, keys, namespaces and queues, moderation rules as resources, and a tool that generates config from an account you built by hand.
- 3 SeptCocoa SDK v1.4.0: LiveObjects stable releaseCLIENT LIBRARY SDK IMPROVEMENTLIVEOBJECTS
The AblyLiveObjects plugin is no longer experimental as of this release, which also makes breaking changes to its API — see below before upgrading. For Pub/Sub (Ably) users the only change is a fix to annotation encoding on channels whose cipher options were changed after creation. Breaking LiveObjects API changes