CopilotKit: AI Agents for Any Application

Learn how to integrate AI agents directly into your existing applications and unlock new levels of user experience and developer productivity with Atai Barkai, CEO of CopilotKit. Discover how CopilotKit provides the essential infrastructure to bridge advanced AI models with your current software stack, making your applications smarter and more intuitive.

What you’ll learn:

• How CopilotKit’s CoAgents and AGUI protocol simplify the integration of AI agents into any application, regardless of framework.

• The practical benefits of implementing ‘SaaS Copilots’ to reduce learning curves and enhance user interaction in complex software.

• Real-world strategies for driving significant internal efficiency gains within large enterprises using AI agents.

• Why the ‘human-plus-AI’ mental model is crucial for the foreseeable future of intelligent systems.

Atai Barkai is the founder and CEO of CopilotKit, a leading open-source framework for building production-ready AI copilots. With extensive experience in AI agent user experience, Atai shares insights from working with indie developers to Fortune 100 companies, offering a unique perspective on the evolving AI landscape.

Key topics covered:

• Bridging AI agents with existing application UIs for enhanced functionality.

• Understanding the AGUI (Agent User Interaction Protocol) for seamless agent-user communication.

• Implementing intent-based interfaces for complex SaaS applications.

• Achieving ‘industrial evolution level productivity gains’ with AI co-agents.

• The open-source model of CopilotKit and its ease of self-hosting.

This episode of AI Tinkerers One-Shot goes under the hood with Atai Barkai to share practical learnings for the community.

💡 Resources:

• CopilotKit Website - https://copilotkit.ai

• Atai Barkai LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/atai-barkai

• AI Tinkerers - https://aitinkerers.org

• One-Shot Podcast - https://aitinkerers.org/podcast

Social Media: @AITinkerers @copilotkit @ataiiam

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00:00 Introduction

00:01:20 Welcome to One-Shot

00:01:55 How Joe Met Atai

00:03:29 Getting Started with CopilotKit

00:03:52 CopilotKit Components: Standard Agent & CoAgents

00:04:50 AGUI Protocol & Events Explained

00:08:05 CopilotKit UI & Shared State Demo

00:11:34 Open Source vs. Cloud Model

00:13:18 Integrating CoAgents into Your App

00:14:38 Why Bring Agents into Applications?

00:15:39 Practical Agent Adoption & Use Cases

00:17:42 Learning More About CopilotKit

00:18:15 What Atai is Tinkering With

00:21:26 Craziest & Most Impactful Use Cases