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Agent Chat is an ACI channel. The messaging surface is your product UI. The agent brain, conversation history, tool approval, and dashboard observability match other ACI channels. The client is useAgentChat from @novu/react. You render the messages and the composer.

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Capabilities

Full matrix: Channels overview.

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Examples

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In-app turn

A subscriber sends a message in your UI. Novu loads conversation history, runs the agent brain, and streams the reply over the socket. Typing and thinking parts update while the turn runs.

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Tool approval

A gated tool pauses the turn. pendingActions includes a tool-approval item. Call respondToAction with approved or denied. The turn resumes after the decision.

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Setup

  1. Create an agent and keep it active.
  2. In the Novu dashboard, open the agent and add Agent Chat as a channel. Novu creates the novu-agent-chat integration if it does not exist.
  3. Embed the chat in your app. Follow Build the UI.

Build the UI

Install @novu/react, wrap NovuProvider, and send a message.

useAgentChat

Hook props, return value, and callbacks.