aisdk

A production-grade AI toolkit for R

aisdk is a unified, layered AI toolkit for R. The self-contained core package exposes a single provider:model interface over many AI providers, plus agent / tool / skill base classes and robust request machinery. A family of companion packages extends that core with extra providers, multi-agent orchestration, the Model Context Protocol, a skill ecosystem, messaging channels, charting/reporting, a Shiny web UI, and local model inference — each opt-in, so the core stays lean.

# Install the family from GitHub (recommended while the companion packages
# make their way onto CRAN). install.packages("pak") first if you need it.
pak::pak("YuLab-SMU/aisdk")   # core only; see "Get started" for the full family

library(aisdk)
chat <- create_chat_session("openai:gpt-4o")
generate_text(chat, "Summarise the tidyverse in one sentence.")

See Get started for a one-step install of the whole family.

The family

Core

Package	What it does
aisdk	Self-contained core: unified provider:model interface, agent/tool/skill base classes, request/retry machinery, and an interactive console.

Providers & local inference

Package	What it does
aisdk.providers	Long-tail OpenAI-/Anthropic-compatible provider adapters: DeepSeek, Moonshot/Kimi, Stepfun, Volcengine, AiHubMix, xAI, OpenRouter, Bailian, NVIDIA.
aisdk.slm	Local small language model inference: quantized GGUF and ONNX/torch models on local hardware, with model discovery and downloading.

Agents & orchestration

Package	What it does
aisdk.orchestration	Multi-agent layer: Flow (delegation tracing, guardrails), AgentTeam (Manager–Worker), and the Mission system (planning, DAG scheduling, retries, checkpointing).

Tools & ecosystem

Package	What it does
aisdk.mcp	Model Context Protocol client and server: use tools from stdio/SSE MCP servers, and expose R functions as MCP tools.
aisdk.skills	Skill authoring, a global skill store, skill-forge tools, and a bundled pack of ready-to-use skills.

Integrations & I/O

Package	What it does
aisdk.channels	Messaging-channel runtime and adapters (e.g. Feishu/Lark): webhooks, event processing, per-conversation sessions, document ingestion.
aisdk.datatools	Heavy-dependency charting and reporting: a ggplot2 chart schema/renderer and a knitr-based AI reporting engine.
aisdk.shiny	Shiny web chat interface and model-configuration UI for interactive, streaming conversations.

Design

The core (aisdk) is deliberately self-contained and the only package that needs to be on CRAN for the basics to work. Everything else registers itself with the core on load — providers into the provider registry, skills into the skill registry, the ggplot coercion handler into the serializer — so heavy or optional dependencies never reach the core unless you actually install the companion. See Get started for the typical setup.