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Bugs / Features

A changeset is not included because this adds a standalone example and does not change a published package.

What is the current behavior?

VoltAgent examples do not show how to turn retrieved agent context into streamed, interactive generative UI. There is no repository example covering an OpenUI parser and renderer, source-grounded charts, follow-up actions, and form values sent into a new VoltAgent turn.

What is the new behavior?

Adds examples/with-openui, a Next.js PDF RAG chat in which:

  • VoltAgent owns agent orchestration, BaseRetriever retrieval, conversation IDs, and Agent.streamText() streaming.
  • OpenUI owns the generated component prompt, AgentInterface, stream parsing, themed rendering, charts, forms, and follow-up actions.
  • The New York City Rent Guidelines Board 2025 Housing Supply Report is the only housing-data source.
  • The PDF is extracted and chunked once, embedded in memory, and searched without a vector database.
  • OpenUI follow-ups and @ToAssistant form submissions return through the same /api/chat route.
  • Current and legacy OpenUI action envelopes are normalized into focused retrieval queries.

The example README documents setup, supported versions, the request flow, datasource replacement, acceptance prompts, and production considerations.

Closes #1400

Validation

pnpm --filter voltagent-example-with-openui generate:prompt
pnpm --filter voltagent-example-with-openui typecheck
pnpm --filter voltagent-example-with-openui lint
pnpm --filter voltagent-example-with-openui test
pnpm --filter voltagent-example-with-openui build

All commands pass. The test suite contains 18 tests covering PDF extraction and ranking, current and legacy action-envelope retrieval, chat request preservation, and OpenUI parser acceptance for chart, dashboard, permit-impact, and form-oriented response shapes.

Browser acceptance on the local app:

Check Evidence
Theme provider AgentInterface exposed 213 active --openui-* variables and rendered the configured dark green theme.
Parser and renderer Assistant output rendered as components rather than raw OpenUI Lang. No browser console errors were recorded.
Chart The PDF-backed borough permit chart rendered at 678 by 326 pixels with all five borough labels and page 6 citation.
Follow-up Clicking Explain the impact of these permits on housing supply created one user turn and one backend request in the same conversation. The reply distinguished permits from completions and displayed exact retrieved values.
Form submit Empty required fields were blocked. Submitting Vacancy rates, City planners, and Compare borough differences produced one backend request and a page 5 table with exact borough rates and an explicit Not calculable value for Staten Island.

Notes for reviewers

  • The bundled PDF is an official public report and is about 2.1 MB.
  • The in-memory index is intentional for this single-document example. The README recommends persistent vector storage for larger or changing collections.
  • Authentication, rate limiting, durable conversation storage, and treating uploaded PDF text as untrusted input are documented as production follow-ups.
  • Local browser screenshots were used for acceptance verification but are not committed.

Summary by cubic

Adds examples/with-openui, a Next.js chat that connects VoltAgent’s single‑PDF RAG to OpenUI for streamed, interactive UI grounded in NYC’s 2025 Housing Supply Report. This demonstrates safe, source‑grounded charts/forms/follow‑ups with hardened sessions and strict request limits.

  • Server: /api/chat streams OpenAI‑compatible SSE using @voltagent/internal safeStringify, reads openui/generated/system-prompt.txt, sets an HttpOnly anonymous visitor cookie, and derives conversationId by hashing server userId with client threadId. Enforces a 1 MB JSON body limit (rejects oversized Content-Length, cancels over‑limit chunked bodies), validates a minimal messages schema, and returns 400 on invalid input.
  • Retrieval: NycHousingPdfRetriever lazily extracts/chunks the bundled PDF, embeds in memory with text-embedding-3-small, ranks by cosine similarity, drops matches below 0.30, expands hits to full PDF pages, and sets rag.references; on errors it injects a retrieval‑unavailable context so the agent refuses to answer from memory.
  • Request handling: normalizes current OpenUI sentinel and legacy <context> envelopes into focused retrieval queries, prioritizing submitted form fields; supports array‑formatted message content.
  • UI: @openuidev/react-ui AgentInterface with the OpenAI adapter streams from the same route; a dark theme is enabled; follow‑ups and @ToAssistant form submissions round‑trip to VoltAgent.
  • Tests: cover PDF extraction and ranking threshold; chat request validation including the 1 MB limit, malformed JSON, and stream cancellation; OpenUI parser acceptance (charts/dashboards/forms); and anonymous session cookies plus conversation ID derivation.
  • Repo: .gitignore excludes openui/generated/*; next.config.ts allows pdf-parse via serverExternalPackages; regenerate prompts with pnpm generate:prompt.
  • Standalone example only; no changes to published packages and no migration required.

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  • New Features

    • Added a complete VoltAgent + OpenUI example for PDF-grounded NYC housing analysis.
    • Supports streaming charts, dashboards, forms, citations, follow-up actions, and submitted form interactions.
    • Added configurable models, starter prompts, chat endpoint setup, anonymous session continuity, and request-size validation.
  • Documentation

    • Added setup, architecture, configuration, data-source replacement, and validation guidance.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for chat validation, sessions, PDF retrieval, and OpenUI response parsing.

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OpenUI PDF RAG example

Layer / File(s) Summary
PDF retrieval pipeline
examples/with-openui/voltagent/pdf-retriever.ts, examples/with-openui/voltagent/pdf-retriever.test.ts
Adds in-memory PDF extraction, chunking, embedding, similarity ranking, caching, query normalization, source formatting, observability, and retrieval tests.
VoltAgent and OpenUI agent
examples/with-openui/voltagent/agent.ts, examples/with-openui/openui/*
Adds report-grounding rules, OpenUI response rules, the VoltAgent factory, local library exports, and parser coverage for charts, dashboards, forms, and follow-up responses.
Validated streaming chat route
examples/with-openui/lib/*, examples/with-openui/app/api/chat/route.ts
Adds request-size enforcement, request validation, action-context preservation, anonymous session handling, thread-aware VoltAgent streaming, OpenAI-compatible SSE responses, and error handling.
OpenUI client and project setup
examples/with-openui/app/*, examples/with-openui/package.json, examples/with-openui/*.config.*, examples/with-openui/README.md, examples/README.md
Adds the client interface, dark theme, project configuration, environment template, setup documentation, acceptance prompts, and example index entry.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to cf440

This standalone example adds OpenUI PDF RAG functionality without changing published packages or migrations, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AgentInterface
  participant ChatRoute
  participant VoltAgent
  participant NycHousingPdfRetriever
  participant OpenUIParser
  AgentInterface->>ChatRoute: Send chat request
  ChatRoute->>VoltAgent: Start thread-aware stream
  VoltAgent->>NycHousingPdfRetriever: Retrieve report context
  NycHousingPdfRetriever-->>VoltAgent: Return ranked source pages
  VoltAgent-->>ChatRoute: Stream OpenUI Lang response
  ChatRoute-->>AgentInterface: Return SSE chunks
  AgentInterface->>OpenUIParser: Parse streamed components
  OpenUIParser-->>AgentInterface: Render chart, dashboard, or form
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #1400 by adding the VoltAgent and OpenUI PDF RAG example, server-side retrieval, streaming UI, actions, tests, and documentation.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The code, tests, configuration, and documentation changes directly support the linked issue and the standalone OpenUI example.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the new OpenUI PDF RAG integration added by the pull request.
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- Around line 6-7: Update the environment-file ignore rules in .gitignore to
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In `@examples/with-openui/app/api/chat/route.ts`:
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<comment>In the dark theme, `foreground` is set to oklch(0.2 0.018 162 / 1), which is nearly the same luminance as `background` (0.15). If `foreground` is the base text color (as in most theme token sets), all default body text would be rendered dark-on-dark and effectively invisible. In dark mode `foreground` should be a light color; leaving it unset (so the library's dark default applies) or setting it to a high-lightness value like the `textBrand` color avoids a broken, low-contrast UI.</comment>

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