CopilotKit Open Sources Channels SDK: An MIT Licensed Library That Runs Any AG-UI Agent Inside Slack And Microsoft Teams
CopilotKit has just released the Channels SDK. It is an open source library that puts an existing agent inside a messaging platform. The core assumption is focused and verifiable. You already have an agent. It already has a model, tools and business logic. Channels gives it a place to work with people, without a rewrite per platform. It runs on Slack and Microsoft Teams as early access surfaces. Discord and Google Chat are named as planned. Installation is two packages: Copy CodeCopied
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CopilotKit has released an open source library called Channels SDK that allows existing AI agents to operate within messaging platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams without requiring a complete rewrite for each platform. The SDK uses a protocol called AG-UI that enables different agent frameworks to connect, and it translates messages into each platform's native format rather than sending plain text. This matters because it lets organizations deploy a single agent across multiple communication platforms while keeping their existing model, tools, and business logic intact. The library requires Node.js 22 and a long-running process to maintain platform connections, and it supports features like generative UI, human approval workflows, and tool execution within conversations.
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