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Ably builds an AI agent transport on top of its realtime stack — human-in-the-loop and branching land in v0.3

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◆Current state
Ably is shipping steady client-SDK maintenance (JS, Cocoa, Dart, CLI) while standing up a new product line: an AI Transport SDK that carries agent conversation streams over its realtime infrastructure. Recent SDK releases improve React channel-hook ergonomics and LiveObjects dashboard visibility, but the distinctive motion is the AI Transport work.
◆Where it's heading
The clear direction is extending Ably's pub/sub and LiveObjects primitives into agentic, real-time AI sessions — session/run models, branching conversations, and human-in-the-loop handoff. The mature client SDKs are being kept stable and incrementally improved while the AI transport layer is where new capability is concentrating.
◆Prediction
Expect the AI Transport SDK to march toward a 1.0 with tighter integration of Presence and LiveObjects into agent sessions, while the core client libraries continue their fix-and-refine cadence.

◆Recent moves

  1. 4d ago

    Cocoa Client Library Release v1.2.61

    Cocoa SDK patch fixing push-notification registration state that couldn't load before the first device unlock after a reboot. Platform-specific bug fix in the mature client line.

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  2. 8d ago

    Ably AI Transport JS SDK Release v0.3.0

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    AI Transport JS SDK v0.3.0 makes codec authoring declarative and lets you layer Pub/Sub Presence and LiveObjects onto the same session as an AI stream. This is the core of Ably's bet on becoming the realtime substrate for agentic apps, advancing fast from the v0.2 session/run rework.

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  3. 8d ago

    JS Client Library Release v2.23.0

    JS Client Library v2.23.0 lets React channel hooks infer the channel from the nearest ChannelProvider and adds listener-only and callback-only hook overloads, plus a presence-bug fix. Ergonomic refinement of the React surface that the AI transport work also builds on.

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  4. 18d ago

    Improved visibility into LiveObjects

    Dashboard gains realtime visibility into LiveObjects — a live stream of object operations and a realtime visualization of all objects on a channel. Improves observability for the LiveObjects primitive that the AI transport now layers onto agent sessions.

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  5. 19d ago

    JS Client Library Release v2.22.1

    JS Client Library v2.22.1 patch restoring mockability of deprecated v1 callback overloads that a never return type had broken. Test-compatibility fix, no new capability.

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  6. 19d ago

    Ably AI Transport JS SDK Release v0.2.0

    AI Transport JS SDK v0.2.0 renames the transport/turn API to session/run and adds support for branching conversations and human-in-the-loop handoff. The groundwork release that v0.3.0 builds directly on.

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