diff --git a/docs/docs.json b/docs/docs.json
index 85a6bb1f..427ba541 100644
--- a/docs/docs.json
+++ b/docs/docs.json
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@
"pages": [
"v3/guides/integrations/claude-code",
"v3/guides/integrations/opencode",
+ "v3/guides/integrations/vercel-ai-sdk",
"v3/guides/integrations/crewai",
"v3/guides/integrations/langgraph",
"v3/guides/integrations/mcp",
diff --git a/docs/v3/guides/integrations/vercel-ai-sdk.mdx b/docs/v3/guides/integrations/vercel-ai-sdk.mdx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b0085f9c
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+++ b/docs/v3/guides/integrations/vercel-ai-sdk.mdx
@@ -0,0 +1,377 @@
+---
+title: "Vercel AI SDK"
+icon: "triangle"
+iconType: "solid"
+description: "Add persistent user memory and reasoning to any Vercel AI SDK app with Honcho"
+sidebarTitle: "Vercel AI SDK"
+---
+
+Integrate Honcho with the Vercel AI SDK to build AI apps that remember users across sessions. The [Vercel AI SDK](https://sdk.vercel.ai) is an open-source TypeScript toolkit for building AI-powered apps with a unified API across providers. This guide shows you how to wrap any `generateText` or `streamText` call with Honcho's memory middleware and reasoning tools.
+
+
+The full package source and examples are available on [GitHub](https://github.com/plastic-labs/vercel-ai-sdk-package).
+
+
+## What We're Building
+
+We'll wire Honcho into a Vercel AI SDK app so the model receives context from past conversations and can query what it knows about the user mid-generation. Here's how the pieces fit together:
+
+- **Vercel AI SDK** handles model calls and streaming
+- **Honcho** stores messages and retrieves user context before each generation
+- **Your model provider** can be Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc.
+
+The key benefit: you don't manually manage conversation history across sessions. Honcho handles persistence and context injection — the model always has a rich picture of who it's talking to. (New to Honcho's primitives? See [peers and sessions](/v3/documentation/core-concepts/architecture).)
+
+## Setup
+
+Install the package:
+
+
+```bash npm
+npm install @honcho-ai/vercel-ai-sdk
+```
+
+```bash pnpm
+pnpm add @honcho-ai/vercel-ai-sdk
+```
+
+```bash yarn
+yarn add @honcho-ai/vercel-ai-sdk
+```
+
+```bash bun
+bun add @honcho-ai/vercel-ai-sdk
+```
+
+
+Get your API key at [app.honcho.dev](https://app.honcho.dev).
+
+```bash
+HONCHO_API_KEY=your-api-key
+HONCHO_WORKSPACE_ID=your-workspace-id
+```
+
+## Create a Provider Instance
+
+`createHoncho()` is the entry point. It reads your API key and workspace from environment variables and returns a provider object with `middleware()`, `tools()`, and `send()`.
+
+```typescript
+import { createHoncho } from '@honcho-ai/vercel-ai-sdk';
+
+const honcho = createHoncho();
+```
+
+You can set a stable `defaultAssistantId` on the provider to identify the AI peer across all calls:
+
+```typescript
+const honcho = createHoncho({
+ defaultAssistantId: 'my-assistant',
+});
+```
+
+## Add Middleware
+
+`honcho.middleware()` is compatible with `wrapLanguageModel`. Two things happen on each call:
+
+1. **Before generation** — Honcho fetches the user's representation, peer card, session summary, and recent messages and injects them into the system prompt
+2. **After generation** — the user message and assistant response are stored back in Honcho with correct peer attribution
+
+```typescript
+import { createHoncho } from '@honcho-ai/vercel-ai-sdk';
+import { wrapLanguageModel, generateText } from 'ai';
+import { anthropic } from '@ai-sdk/anthropic';
+
+const honcho = createHoncho();
+
+const model = wrapLanguageModel({
+ model: anthropic('claude-sonnet-4-6'),
+ middleware: honcho.middleware({
+ userId: 'user-abc',
+ sessionId: 'session-123',
+ }),
+});
+
+const { text } = await generateText({
+ model,
+ prompt: 'What should I focus on today?',
+});
+```
+
+Pass `userId` and `sessionId` per request — no session handles to construct. Both default to lazily generated IDs if omitted, which is fine for local scripts but not for multi-user server traffic.
+
+## Add Tools
+
+`honcho.tools()` gives the model six tools it can call mid-generation to query or update what it knows about the user:
+
+| Tool | What it does |
+| --- | --- |
+| `honcho_chat` | Dialectic reasoning — ask natural-language questions about the user; answers synthesized from full interaction history |
+| `honcho_context` | Short summary of recent context within the session |
+| `honcho_search` | Semantic search over stored conversation messages |
+| `honcho_search_conclusions` | Query derived conclusions: personality traits, preferences, behavioral patterns |
+| `honcho_get_representation` | Full synthesized profile of the user |
+| `honcho_save_conclusion` | Persist an observation about the user for future sessions |
+
+Pass the same `userId` and `sessionId` to `honcho.tools()` so tool calls bind to the same peers as the middleware:
+
+```typescript
+import { generateText, stepCountIs } from 'ai';
+
+const { text } = await generateText({
+ model,
+ tools: honcho.tools({
+ userId: 'user-abc',
+ sessionId: 'session-123',
+ }),
+ stopWhen: stepCountIs(3),
+ prompt: 'Based on our conversations, what do I care about most?',
+});
+```
+
+## Complete Example
+
+Here's a full working example combining middleware and tools.
+
+Want a runnable end-to-end version? See the [Full Script](#full-script).
+
+```typescript
+import { createHoncho } from '@honcho-ai/vercel-ai-sdk';
+import { wrapLanguageModel, generateText, stepCountIs } from 'ai';
+import { anthropic } from '@ai-sdk/anthropic';
+
+const honcho = createHoncho({
+ defaultAssistantId: 'assistant',
+});
+
+const userId = 'user-abc';
+const sessionId = 'session-123';
+
+const model = wrapLanguageModel({
+ model: anthropic('claude-sonnet-4-6'),
+ middleware: honcho.middleware({ userId, sessionId }),
+});
+
+const { text } = await generateText({
+ model,
+ tools: honcho.tools({ userId, sessionId }),
+ stopWhen: stepCountIs(3),
+ prompt: 'What should we work on today?',
+});
+
+console.log(text);
+```
+
+## Streaming
+
+`streamText` works the same way — middleware handles persistence after the stream completes:
+
+```typescript
+import { createHoncho } from '@honcho-ai/vercel-ai-sdk';
+import { wrapLanguageModel, streamText } from 'ai';
+import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
+
+const honcho = createHoncho();
+
+const userId = 'user-abc';
+const sessionId = 'session-456';
+
+const model = wrapLanguageModel({
+ model: openai('gpt-4o'),
+ middleware: honcho.middleware({ userId, sessionId }),
+});
+
+const result = streamText({
+ model,
+ tools: honcho.tools({ userId, sessionId }),
+ prompt: 'What should we work on today?',
+});
+
+for await (const chunk of result.textStream) {
+ process.stdout.write(chunk);
+}
+```
+
+## Using with `messages`
+
+If your app already manages conversation history and passes a `messages` array directly, set `injectHistory: false` to prevent Honcho from prepending duplicate history:
+
+```typescript
+honcho.middleware({
+ userId,
+ sessionId,
+ injectHistory: false, // don't prepend history — we're passing messages directly
+})
+```
+
+Honcho still injects the user's representation and peer card into the system prompt, and still persists messages after generation. With `injectHistory: false` you must pass a `messages` array — without either `messages` or `prompt`, the Vercel AI SDK throws `Invalid prompt: prompt or messages must be defined`.
+
+## Verifying the Integration
+
+### 1. Isolate Honcho's Contribution
+
+Let's confirm the memory is actually coming from Honcho and not your app's existing conversation history.
+
+Two ways to check: 1) through a developer method 2) through the UI.
+
+**Token delta (developer check).** On a session with a few prior turns, run the same prompt twice — once with `injectHistory: false` and once without.
+
+Compare `result.usage.inputTokens`:
+
+```typescript
+const baseline = await generateText({
+ model: wrapLanguageModel({
+ model: anthropic('claude-sonnet-4-6'),
+ middleware: honcho.middleware({ userId, sessionId, injectHistory: false }),
+ }),
+ prompt: 'What do you know about my preferences?',
+});
+
+const injected = await generateText({
+ model: wrapLanguageModel({
+ model: anthropic('claude-sonnet-4-6'),
+ middleware: honcho.middleware({ userId, sessionId }),
+ }),
+ prompt: 'What do you know about my preferences?',
+});
+
+console.log(injected.usage.inputTokens - baseline.usage.inputTokens);
+```
+
+A positive delta is Honcho's representation, peer card, and session summary being injected into the system prompt. Expect ~0 on a fresh peer — the deriver runs asynchronously after messages persist, so injected context only populates after a few prior turns.
+
+**Dashboard (UI check).** Open [app.honcho.dev/explore](https://app.honcho.dev/explore), select your workspace, and confirm your peer and session appear under the Peers and Sessions tables.
+
+With Honcho's contribution isolated, the rest of this section shows what the integration feels like in practice.
+
+### 2. First turn
+
+Send any message. The model responds normally — nothing is stored yet. Context injection returns empty on the first turn.
+
+### 3. Build memory across turns
+
+Have a multi-turn conversation and share something about yourself:
+
+```text
+I prefer concise answers and I mostly work in TypeScript.
+```
+
+After a few turns, ask:
+
+```text
+What do you know about my preferences?
+```
+
+If the model references TypeScript and concise answers without being told again in this session, memory is working.
+
+### 4. Cross-session recall
+
+Start a new session (new `sessionId`) with the same `userId`. Ask:
+
+```text
+Call your honcho_search tool with the query 'TypeScript' and quote the exact verbatim message that contained TypeScript. Do not paraphrase.
+```
+
+If the search returns a message from the prior session word-for-word, peer-scoped retrieval is crossing session boundaries. `honcho_search` queries the user's messages across all their sessions and doesn't depend on the deriver, so it works regardless of how short the prior session was.
+
+To confirm the tool actually fired, inspect `result.steps[i].toolCalls`:
+
+```typescript
+const toolFires = result.steps?.flatMap((step, i) =>
+ (step.toolCalls ?? []).map((tc) => ({ step: i, tool: tc.toolName, input: tc.input }))
+) ?? [];
+console.log(toolFires);
+// [{ step: 0, tool: "honcho_search", input: { query: "TypeScript", limit: 10 } }]
+```
+
+When the model takes more than one turn (call a tool, see the result, then answer), the top-level `result.toolCalls` is empty — check inside each `step`.
+
+## Full Script
+
+
+```typescript
+/**
+ * Multi-turn chat with Honcho memory + Vercel AI SDK.
+ *
+ * Prerequisites:
+ * 1. Install dependencies:
+ * npm install @honcho-ai/vercel-ai-sdk ai @ai-sdk/anthropic dotenv
+ * 2. Set environment variables in `.env`:
+ * HONCHO_API_KEY=your-honcho-api-key
+ * HONCHO_WORKSPACE_ID=your-workspace-id
+ * ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your-anthropic-api-key
+ * 3. Run with: npx tsx honcho_vercel_chat.ts
+ *
+ * Pass a stable userId from your auth system and a sessionId for the conversation
+ * thread; Honcho handles persistence and context injection on every turn.
+ */
+
+import 'dotenv/config';
+import { createHoncho } from '@honcho-ai/vercel-ai-sdk';
+import { wrapLanguageModel, generateText, stepCountIs } from 'ai';
+import { anthropic } from '@ai-sdk/anthropic';
+import * as readline from 'node:readline/promises';
+import { stdin as input, stdout as output } from 'node:process';
+
+const honcho = createHoncho({
+ defaultAssistantId: 'assistant',
+});
+
+const userId = process.env.USER_ID ?? 'demo-user';
+const sessionId = process.env.SESSION_ID ?? `session-${Date.now()}`;
+
+const model = wrapLanguageModel({
+ model: anthropic('claude-sonnet-4-6'),
+ middleware: honcho.middleware({ userId, sessionId }),
+});
+
+async function chat(prompt: string): Promise {
+ const { text } = await generateText({
+ model,
+ tools: honcho.tools({ userId, sessionId }),
+ stopWhen: stepCountIs(3),
+ prompt,
+ });
+ return text;
+}
+
+async function main() {
+ const rl = readline.createInterface({ input, output });
+ console.log(`Honcho session: ${sessionId} (user: ${userId})`);
+ console.log('Type a message, or "exit" to quit.\n');
+
+ while (true) {
+ const userMessage = (await rl.question('you > ')).trim();
+ if (!userMessage || userMessage === 'exit') break;
+ const reply = await chat(userMessage);
+ console.log(`bot > ${reply}\n`);
+ }
+
+ rl.close();
+}
+
+main().catch((err) => {
+ console.error(err);
+ process.exit(1);
+});
+```
+
+
+## Next Steps
+
+
+
+ Source, tests, and full API reference for @honcho-ai/vercel-ai-sdk.
+
+
+
+ Learn about peers, sessions, and dialectic reasoning.
+
+
+
+ Run Honcho locally with your Vercel AI SDK app.
+
+
+
+ wrapLanguageModel, middleware, and tool use reference.
+
+
diff --git a/tests/crud/test_representation_manager.py b/tests/crud/test_representation_manager.py
index dfd959d7..ff49ac07 100644
--- a/tests/crud/test_representation_manager.py
+++ b/tests/crud/test_representation_manager.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ async def _fake_tracked_db(_name: str):
def _saved_observations(mock_save: AsyncMock):
call = mock_save.await_args
+ assert call is not None, "mock was not awaited"
if "all_observations" in call.kwargs:
return call.kwargs["all_observations"]
if len(call.args) > 1:
@@ -162,7 +163,9 @@ class TestRepresentationManagerSoftDelete:
class TestRepresentationManagerSave:
@pytest.mark.asyncio
- async def test_save_representation_filters_blank_observations_before_embedding(self):
+ async def test_save_representation_filters_blank_observations_before_embedding(
+ self,
+ ):
manager = RepresentationManager(
"workspace",
observer="observer",
@@ -202,7 +205,7 @@ class TestRepresentationManagerSave:
message_ids=[1],
session_name="session",
message_created_at=datetime.now(timezone.utc),
- message_level_configuration=SimpleNamespace(
+ message_level_configuration=SimpleNamespace( # pyright: ignore[reportArgumentType]
dream=SimpleNamespace(enabled=False)
),
)
@@ -258,7 +261,7 @@ class TestRepresentationManagerSave:
message_ids=[1],
session_name="session",
message_created_at=datetime.now(timezone.utc),
- message_level_configuration=SimpleNamespace(
+ message_level_configuration=SimpleNamespace( # pyright: ignore[reportArgumentType]
dream=SimpleNamespace(enabled=False)
),
)
@@ -311,7 +314,7 @@ class TestRepresentationManagerSave:
message_ids=[1],
session_name="session",
message_created_at=datetime.now(timezone.utc),
- message_level_configuration=SimpleNamespace(
+ message_level_configuration=SimpleNamespace( # pyright: ignore[reportArgumentType]
dream=SimpleNamespace(enabled=False)
),
)
diff --git a/tests/routes/test_messages.py b/tests/routes/test_messages.py
index 07040e20..a121cfe0 100644
--- a/tests/routes/test_messages.py
+++ b/tests/routes/test_messages.py
@@ -1001,8 +1001,10 @@ async def test_create_message_without_timestamp_uses_default(
db_session.add(test_session)
await db_session.commit()
- # Record time before request
- before_request = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)
+ # Pad the window to absorb client/Postgres clock skew under Docker.
+ before_request = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) - datetime.timedelta(
+ seconds=1
+ )
response = client.post(
f"/v3/workspaces/{test_workspace.name}/sessions/{test_session.name}/messages",
@@ -1017,8 +1019,9 @@ async def test_create_message_without_timestamp_uses_default(
},
)
- # Record time after request
- after_request = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)
+ after_request = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) + datetime.timedelta(
+ seconds=1
+ )
assert response.status_code == 201
data = response.json()
@@ -1053,8 +1056,9 @@ async def test_create_batch_messages_with_mixed_timestamps(
timestamp1 = datetime.datetime(2023, 1, 1, 12, 0, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
timestamp2 = datetime.datetime(2023, 1, 2, 12, 0, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
- # Record time before request for default timestamp
- before_request = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)
+ before_request = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) - datetime.timedelta(
+ seconds=1
+ )
response = client.post(
f"/v3/workspaces/{test_workspace.name}/sessions/{test_session.name}/messages",
@@ -1081,7 +1085,9 @@ async def test_create_batch_messages_with_mixed_timestamps(
},
)
- after_request = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)
+ after_request = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) + datetime.timedelta(
+ seconds=1
+ )
assert response.status_code == 201
data = response.json()
@@ -1124,8 +1130,9 @@ async def test_create_message_with_null_timestamp(
db_session.add(test_session)
await db_session.commit()
- # Record time before request
- before_request = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)
+ before_request = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) - datetime.timedelta(
+ seconds=1
+ )
response = client.post(
f"/v3/workspaces/{test_workspace.name}/sessions/{test_session.name}/messages",
@@ -1141,7 +1148,9 @@ async def test_create_message_with_null_timestamp(
},
)
- after_request = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)
+ after_request = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) + datetime.timedelta(
+ seconds=1
+ )
assert response.status_code == 201
data = response.json()