Agent-Native

Agent-Native is an open-source framework from BuilderIO for building agentic applications where the AI agent and the UI are equal citizens of the same system. It provides primitives for product-grade agentic software — shared actions, SQL-backed state, identity, tools, skills, jobs, observability, and UI surfaces — all working together. The project is hosted on GitHub under the BuilderIO organization and is available under the MIT license.

What It Is

Agent-Native is a TypeScript framework that lets developers define a single action once and have it automatically available from the chat UI, CLI, HTTP endpoints, MCP, A2A (agent-to-agent), scheduled jobs, and webhooks. Rather than bolting AI onto an existing app or building a raw agent with no UI, Agent-Native positions itself as a middle path: a full-featured, forkable application framework where the agent is a first-class peer alongside the user interface.

Core Architecture

The framework is built around three primitives:

• Actions: Typed, Zod-validated operations defined once with defineAction(). A single action file fans out to every consumer — agent, UI, HTTP, MCP, A2A, CLI — with no extra wiring.
• Agent runtime: Chat, tools, skills, memory, jobs, observability, and handoffs ship together. State is SQL-backed (SQLite locally, any Drizzle-supported database in production).
• Agent surfaces: Headless (no UI), chat, embedded sidebar, or full app — all sharing the same actions and state.

The framework is backend-agnostic: developers bring their own database, hosting provider, and model stack. The server layer is built on Nitro, and the frontend uses React Router and Vite.

Templates and Skills

Agent-Native ships with a gallery of complete, forkable open-source app templates — not scaffolds, but full SaaS-style applications the developer owns entirely:

• Clips: Screen recording with auto-transcripts and browser debug capture, positioned as an alternative to Loom and Granola.
• Plans: Visual planning mode for coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, with diagrams, wireframes, and review links.
• Design: HTML prototyping studio using Alpine/Tailwind, with variant comparison and export.
• Content: Local Markdown/MDX editor with AI drafting and publishing, positioned as an alternative to Obsidian.
• Slides: Prompt-driven presentation builder with 8 layouts and AI image generation.
• Analytics: Connect data sources, prompt for charts, and build reusable dashboards.

For developers who don't want to scaffold a full app, Agent-Native also offers installable skills — one-command additions to existing coding agents. The visual-plan skill adds /visual-plan and /visual-recap slash commands to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and similar tools.

Batteries-Included Feature Set

The framework includes a broad set of production-ready building blocks: notifications, recurring jobs, RBAC, organizations, workspace secrets, observability, real-time sync, multi-tenancy, data loaders, live queries, MCP + A2A support, human handoff, durable resume, SSO, OAuth, audit logs, rate limits, queues, cron schedules, evals, file uploads, webhooks, and self-editing code capabilities.

Update: @agent-native/skills@0.2.144

The latest release as of late June 2026 is @agent-native/skills@0.2.144, published on June 26, 2026. The repository was created in March 2026 and has seen rapid iteration, with the GitHub repository accumulating over 2,500 stars and 243 forks according to GitHub metadata. The project is actively maintained with frequent pushes to the main branch.