Removes the release-candidate framing from the docs for the 4.5 GA: the
`@rc` install caveats on the `skills` CLI command, and the AI Agents and
Prompts release-candidate banner (a shared snippet used across the
ai-chat and prompts pages) plus the `>=4.5.0-rc.0` compatibility pin in
the AI reference.
## Summary
Documents the Sessions HTTP API for non-SDK and server-to-server
callers, which until now appeared only in the conceptual
[ai-chat/sessions](https://trigger.dev/docs/ai-chat/sessions) page.
## What's covered
- **Sessions API reference** —
`create`/`list`/`retrieve`/`update`/`close` added to the OpenAPI spec
and a new "Sessions API" group (`management/sessions/*`), mirroring the
Runs API.
- **Channel endpoints** — a reference page for the `.in`/`.out` realtime
HTTP endpoints (append, SSE read, records drain), the wire protocol,
`Last-Event-ID` resume, and the per-direction auth boundary (`.out`
append is secret-key only).
- **Session scopes** — `read:sessions:{id}` / `write:sessions:{id}` in
the authentication docs, with the capability boundary and the 1h token
TTL.
Cross-linked with the SDK-side `ai-chat/sessions` page. Verified by
rendering each page on the Mintlify dev server.
## Summary
Two documentation improvements for the AI chat docs.
**Head-start persistence contract.** The fast starts page now documents
what your hooks can rely on across a head-start handover: one stable
assistant `messageId` for the whole turn, `onTurnComplete` as the
canonical persistence point, reasoning parts flowing into durable
history, and how Head Start composes with `hydrateMessages` (the
first-turn history arrives as `incomingMessages`, and the runtime
splices the warm partial onto the hydrated chain, deduplicated by id).
The hydrate examples on the lifecycle hooks and database persistence
pages now upsert their conversation row, since head-start first turns
run without a preload to create it.
**Sessions page.** The page opened with "a durable, task-bound,
bi-directional I/O channel pair", which reads as jargon and omitted run
orchestration entirely. It now leads with the plain mental model (a pair
of durable streams: input carries user messages, output carries
everything the agent produces) plus the Session's role orchestrating
runs, a diagram, a minimal runnable example, and a section on the
one-session-many-runs lifecycle.
Documents behavior shipping in
[#3907](https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/pull/3907).
## Summary
Lands the full AI Agents documentation surface alongside the v4.5
release candidate of `@trigger.dev/sdk`. Covers `chat.agent` end to end
— defining agents, lifecycle hooks, the frontend transport, sub-agents,
recovery from cancel/crash/OOM, AI Prompts integration — and the
Sessions primitive that backs it.
## Coverage
- **Conceptual**: Overview, Quick Start, How it works.
- **Building agents**: Backend (`chat.agent` / `chat.createSession` /
raw primitives), Lifecycle hooks, Frontend transport, Server-side
`AgentChat`, Sessions reference, `chat.local` state primitive,
TypeScript types.
- **Features**: AI Prompts integration, Fast starts (Preload + Head
Start), Compaction, Pending Messages (steering), Background Injection
(`chat.inject` + `chat.defer`), Actions (undo / regenerate / edit),
Error handling.
- **Patterns (13)**: Sub-agents, Branching conversations, Code sandbox,
Database persistence, Persistence and replay, HITL, Tool result
auditing, Large payloads, Agent skills, OOM resilience, Recovery boot,
Trusted edge signals, Version upgrades.
- **Reference**: API Reference, Client Protocol (wire format), Testing
harness (`mockChatAgent`), MCP server tools, Upgrade guide, Changelog.
## Structure changes
- Top-level nav: AI → **Agents**, with sub-groups for *Building agents /
Features / Patterns / Reference*.
- New RC banner snippet on every page links to the supported AI SDK
versions table on the API Reference.
- All examples use Anthropic with `stopWhen: stepCountIs(15)`.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Eric Allam