copilotkit--copilotkit/showcase/integrations/agno/PARITY_NOTES.md

Agno — Parity Notes

Tracking notes for feature-matrix parity between this package and showcase/integrations/langgraph-python/ (canonical reference).

Ported

See manifest.yaml for the authoritative list.

Initial parity push

• prebuilt-sidebar, prebuilt-popup — chrome demos using the shared main agent
• chat-slots, chat-customization-css — chat customization paths
• headless-simple — minimal useAgent surface
• frontend-tools, frontend-tools-async — useFrontendTool (sync + async handlers)
• readonly-state-agent-context — useAgentContext read-only context
• tool-rendering-default-catchall, tool-rendering-custom-catchall — wildcard-only tool rendering variants (new get_stock_price + roll_dice tools added to the Agno main agent)
• hitl-in-chat booking flow — useHumanInTheLoop with a new book_call external-execution tool
• hitl-in-app — frontend-tool + app-level approval dialog (frontend-only)

Second pass (deferred-demo recovery)

• agentic-chat-reasoning, reasoning-default-render, tool-rendering-reasoning-chain — reasoning family. Verified Agno's AGUI interface emits REASONING_MESSAGE_* events (agno/os/interfaces/agui/utils.py imports ReasoningMessageStartEvent / ReasoningMessageContentEvent / ReasoningMessageEndEvent). Added a new reasoning_agent Python module with reasoning=True plus a second AGUI interface mounted at prefix /reasoning. The Next.js runtime aliases the three reasoning agent names to an HttpAgent targeting /reasoning/agui.
• headless-complete — full chat from scratch on useAgent + CopilotChatConfigurationProvider + manual useRenderToolCall / useRenderActivityMessage / useRenderCustomMessages composition. Reuses the Agno main agent via the default /api/copilotkit endpoint. MCP-Apps activity surface is intentionally omitted — Agno's AGUI adapter doesn't expose an MCP-Apps runtime. Every other generative-UI branch (per-tool renderers, useComponent frontend tools, reasoning, custom messages, wildcard catch-all) is wired in.
• auth — dedicated /api/copilotkit-auth runtime using createCopilotRuntimeHandler from @copilotkit/runtime/v2 with an onRequest hook that rejects requests lacking a static Bearer token. Authenticated target is the Agno main agent at /agui.

Fourth pass (manifest fill — first half)

• cli-start — informational demo entry (no route/agent) advertising the copy-paste starter command for Agno. Mirrors the canonical langgraph-python cli-start cell.
• gen-ui-tool-based — already shipped as a haiku-renderer demo (frontend-only via useFrontendTool + render); now declared in manifest.yaml so the showcase picks it up. Wired to the main agent under the gen-ui-tool-based alias in src/app/api/copilotkit/route.ts.
• hitl-in-chat-booking — manifest entry pointing at the existing hitl-in-chat time-picker booking surface (same files, distinct cell). The Agno main agent's book_call external-execution tool already drives this flow.

Fifth pass (manifest fill — second half)

• mcp-apps — runtime mcpApps.servers middleware against the public Excalidraw MCP server. Backed by a no-tools Agno agent (mcp_apps_agent.py) mounted at /mcp-apps/agui so the LLM only sees the MCP-injected toolset.
• open-gen-ui / open-gen-ui-advanced — shared dedicated runtime (/api/copilotkit-ogui) with the openGenerativeUI flag that wires the middleware. Backed by a no-tools Agno agent (open_gen_ui_agent.py) mounted at /open-gen-ui/agui. Advanced cell adds host-side sandbox functions (evaluateExpression, notifyHost) on the provider.
• agent-config — typed config object (tone/expertise/responseLength) forwarded via the provider's properties prop. The Agno backend mounts a custom AGUI handler at /agent-config/agui (agent_server.py:: _run_agent_config) that reads RunAgentInput.forwarded_props and builds a per-request Agno Agent from agents.agent_config_agent.build_agent(...) before delegating to the stock AGUI stream mapper. Agno has no LangGraph-style configurable channel, so the per-request factory is the cleanest path to dynamic system prompts here.
• voice — V2 runtime under /api/copilotkit-voice with a guarded TranscriptionServiceOpenAI. Targets the Agno main agent at /agui for the chat side; transcription is purely runtime-side.
• multimodal — vision-capable Agno agent (multimodal_agent.py, gpt-4o) on its own /multimodal/agui interface, scoped via /api/copilotkit-multimodal. Image attachments forward natively; PDF flattening helper (_maybe_flatten_pdf_part) lives next to the agent for use if the AGUI converter needs assistance.
• byoc-hashbrown — dedicated /api/copilotkit-byoc-hashbrown runtime + byoc_hashbrown_agent.py whose system prompt steers the LLM toward the hashbrown UI-kit envelope shape ({ "ui": [...] }).
• byoc-json-render — dedicated /api/copilotkit-byoc-json-render runtime
  • byoc_json_render_agent.py whose system prompt steers the LLM toward the json-render flat element-tree spec ({ root, elements }).

Sixth pass (A2UI fixed schema)

• a2ui-fixed-schema — dedicated /api/copilotkit-a2ui-fixed-schema runtime with injectA2UITool: false. New a2ui_fixed_agent.py mounted at /a2ui-fixed-schema/agui ships flight_schema.json + booked_schema.json and a single display_flight tool that emits an a2ui_operations container directly — no secondary LLM call — so the LLM only fills in data (origin/destination/airline/price). booked_schema.json is shipped as a sibling for when the SDK exposes per-button action handlers for fixed-schema surfaces.

Seventh pass (A2UI dynamic schema)

• declarative-gen-ui — dedicated /api/copilotkit-declarative-gen-ui runtime with injectA2UITool: false. New a2ui_dynamic_agent.py mounted at /declarative-gen-ui/agui owns its own generate_a2ui tool. Unlike the main agent's hardcoded-catalog generate_a2ui, this agent's tool reads the registered client catalog from run_context.session_state["copilotkit"]["context"] and feeds it to the secondary OpenAI client, so the rendered components stay in sync with whatever catalog the frontend registers via <CopilotKit a2ui={{ catalog }}>. See src/app/demos/declarative-gen-ui/README.md for the differences vs. the main-agent path.

Third pass (state + multi-agent recovery)

• shared-state-read-write — bidirectional shared state with the UI writing preferences via agent.setState(...) and the agno agent writing notes back via a set_notes tool that mutates run_context.session_state["notes"]. Backed by a new shared_state_read_write agent module + a custom AGUI handler in agent_server.py mounted at /shared-state-rw/agui. The custom handler is a thin shim around agno.os.interfaces.agui.utils's stream mapper that additionally emits a StateSnapshotEvent with the final session_state immediately before RunFinishedEvent — Agno's stock AGUI router does not emit state events, so without this shim agent-side state writes are invisible to a frontend subscribed via useAgent({ updates: [OnStateChanged] }).
• subagents — supervisor agno agent delegating to three specialized sub-agents (research / writing / critique). Each sub-agent is itself an Agno Agent(...) with its own system prompt, invoked via the delegation tools' _invoke_sub_agent helper. Every delegation appends an entry to session_state["delegations"] (with running status pre-flight, then flipped to completed/failed post-flight). Reuses the same /subagents/agui state-aware AGUI handler so the delegation log re-renders live.

Skipped

The following demos from the canonical LangGraph-Python reference are intentionally NOT ported to this package. Each has a concrete reason tied to a genuine framework capability difference or infrastructure requirement that we couldn't validate in this blitz pass.

LangGraph-specific primitives (no direct Agno equivalent)

• gen-ui-interrupt — Uses LangGraph's interrupt() primitive to pause the graph mid-run and resolve from the UI. Agno's AgentOS AGUI adapter does not expose an equivalent long-running-resume primitive at this time. We already ship hitl-in-chat-booking + hitl-in-app, which cover the user-facing HITL scenario via Agno's native tool-approval path.
• interrupt-headless — Same root cause as gen-ui-interrupt. Headless resume from a button grid requires a pause/resume handle the Agno AGUI adapter does not currently surface.

Require dedicated runtimes we haven't wired yet

These demos depend on dedicated /api/copilotkit-<variant>/route.ts runtimes in the canonical reference. They are portable in principle — they just need new route files each and supporting Python wiring — but doing them right requires exercising Agno's runtime config paths we haven't validated yet. Deferred for a follow-up parity pass rather than faked in.

• beautiful-chat — combined runtime (openGenerativeUI + a2ui + mcpApps)
• byoc-hashbrown — dedicated /api/copilotkit-byoc-hashbrown runtime, requires Agno structured-output streaming matching the hashbrown Zod catalog
• byoc-json-render — dedicated /api/copilotkit-byoc-json-render runtime, requires streaming JSON-schema-constrained output from Agno
• multimodal — dedicated /api/copilotkit-multimodal runtime; Agno supports multimodal input via UserMessage(images=[...]) but wiring vision to an AGUI-served agent needs a runtime surface we haven't built
• voice — dedicated /api/copilotkit-voice runtime + @copilotkit/voice; voice STT is a frontend concern independent of the Agno agent
• open-gen-ui, open-gen-ui-advanced — dedicated /api/copilotkit-ogui runtime; requires openGenerativeUI middleware on a V2 runtime talking to an Agno agent
• agent-config — dedicated /api/copilotkit-agent-config runtime with typed config forwarding; needs Agno dynamic-system-prompt wiring per-request
• mcp-apps — requires Agno MCP client/server wiring; Agno has agno.tools.mcp.MCPTools but integration with the AGUI adapter's activity-message surface wasn't verified

Not a real demo

• cli-start — Copy-paste starter command rendered by the dashboard as a command card with no route/agent. The equivalent starter for Agno is already advertised via manifest.yaml's starter: section.