@agentskit/ink

@agentskit/ink

Build terminal AI chat interfaces with the exact same API as @agentskit/react.

Why

• No context switching — if you know @agentskit/react, you already know this; same hooks, same component names, different renderer
• Real terminal UX — keyboard navigation, ANSI colors, and proper TTY streaming so your CLI feels native, not like a web app in a box
• Any local or cloud model — pair with Ollama for fully offline CLI tools, or any other provider via @agentskit/adapters

Install

npm install @agentskit/ink @agentskit/adapters

Quick example

import React from 'react'
import { render } from 'ink'
import { ChatContainer, InputBar, Message, useChat } from '@agentskit/ink'
import { ollama } from '@agentskit/adapters'

function App() {
  const chat = useChat({ adapter: ollama({ model: 'llama3.1' }) })
  return (
    <ChatContainer>
      {chat.messages.map(msg => <Message key={msg.id} message={msg} />)}
      <InputBar chat={chat} />
    </ChatContainer>
  )
}

render(<App />)

Next steps

• Use tools and memory from @agentskit/tools and @agentskit/memory in useChat the same way as in React
• For a browser UI, swap to @agentskit/react; for a quick terminal chat without your own Ink app, run @agentskit/cli agentskit chat

Ecosystem

Package	Role
@agentskit/react	Browser — same hooks, different renderer
@agentskit/cli	Interactive chat + agentskit init
@agentskit/adapters	Providers (e.g. ollama for local models)
@agentskit/core	Shared chat types and controller

Docs

Full documentation