[▲ Vercel Community](/) · [Categories](/categories) · [Latest](/latest) · [Top](/top) · [Live](/live) [Showcase](/c/showcase/41) # Introducing AgentKit - a production-ready starter for building real AI agents 131 views · 4 likes · 2 posts Anayat (@anayatkhan1) · 2026-01-19 · ♥ 2 **AgentKit** is a production-ready starter for building AI agents with web search, auth, persistence, and a clean UI everything needed to ship fast.  ## **Features** * 🚀 **AI-Powered Web Search**: Toggle web search on/off with a single click. Your AI agent can search the web for current information, recent events, and up-to-date data when needed. * 💬 **Modern Chat Interface**: Pre-built chat UI with streaming responses, file uploads, message history, and tool call visualization. Built with shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS. * 🔐 **User Authentication**: Integrated Clerk authentication with email/password and OAuth support. User-scoped chat history with secure database persistence. * 💾 **Database Persistence**: PostgreSQL with Prisma ORM. All conversations are automatically saved with user-scoped data for easy querying and management. * 🎨 **Beautiful UI**: Built with shadcn/ui components and Tailwind CSS for a modern, responsive design. * ⚡ **Real-time Streaming**: See your agent’s search process in real-time with collapsible source citations and tool call visualization. * 🛡️ **Production Ready**: Includes error handling, loading states, responsive design, and optimized for Vercel deployment. * 📝 **TypeScript**: Full type safety throughout the codebase for better developer experience. * 🔧 **Developer Experience**: Clean architecture, easy to customize, and well-documented code. ## **Built with** * [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/) 16.1.1 * [React](https://react.dev/) 19.2.3 * [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/) * [Vercel AI SDK](https://sdk.vercel.ai/) * [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/) (Claude Sonnet 4.5) * [Clerk](https://clerk.com/) (Authentication) * [Prisma](https://www.prisma.io/) + [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org/) * [shadcn/ui](https://ui.shadcn.com/) * [Tailwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com/) * [Magic UI](https://magicui.design/) (Landing page components) * [ExaLabs AI SDK](https://www.exalabs.com/) (Web search tool) Demo - [AgentKIt](https://agentkitt.xyz/) Source code - [Repository](https://github.com/anayatkhan1/agentkit-starter) Thanks! Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2026-01-21 · ♥ 2 Great ship, @anayatkhan1!
