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Summary

The Agent-SDK half of the OpenUI backport from Noetic (DEV-773, part of the DEV-765 umbrella; spec: DEV-764 RFC).

Deliberately thin per the spec: the API owns parsing/prompting/validation; the SDK ships builders, the tool render surface, and stream access.

New src/lib/openui/ module

  • defineComponent / createLibrary — component vocabulary from Zod prop schemas; prop declaration order is normative (positional args in OpenUI Lang map by order)
  • fragment(library) + uiRef/uiState/uiBuiltin — typed constructors for tool-authored UI; literal props validated at construction time
  • openui(library) — produces the wire-shaped {id:'openui', library, dialect} plugin preference (Zod → JSON Schema); plugins already type-flows through CallModelInput, so no callModel signature change
  • translateUiEvent + UI stream event model

tool() render surface

  • Optional toUIOutput sibling of toModelOutput on regular/generator/HITL tools
  • Successful executions broadcast a tool.ui_fragment stream event (render-only — never sent to the model; throwing toUIOutput degrades to no-fragment)

ModelResult.getUiStream()

  • Streams UI events across all turns: tool-authored fragments + the API's response.openui.statement/fragment/document wire events
  • Wire events not yet in the SDK's stream-event union arrive via its forward-compat Unknown catch-all; translation reads the raw payload, so the stream works before and after the SDK regen (DEV-772)
  • Implements both the no-tools fast path (with hooks-session finalization) and the multi-turn broadcaster path

Deferred (documented in the ticket)

  • uiSubmitted()/uiInteracted()/uiToAssistant() stop predicates — need interaction events that only exist once Phase-3 surface state (DEV-774) lands
  • Items-stream surfacing of UI events; fragments on the auto-approve/pending-state paths

Test plan

  • 28 new tests (openui.test.ts, openui-stream.test.ts): serialization, library ordering/validation, fragment builder, plugin wire shape, event translation (incl. Unknown encoding), getUiStream fast path, broadcastUiFragment success/skip/throw paths
  • Full suite: 774/774 passing (62 files), typecheck + biome clean

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API example

import {
  callModel,
  createLibrary,
  defineComponent,
  fragment,
  openui,
  tool,
} from '@openrouter/agent';
import { z } from 'zod/v4';

const library = createLibrary([
  defineComponent({
    name: 'Text',
    props: z.object({ value: z.string() }),
  }),
]);

const ui = fragment(library);
const greeting = tool({
  name: 'greeting',
  inputSchema: z.object({ name: z.string() }),
  execute: ({ name }) => ({ message: `Hello, ${name}!` }),
  toUiOutput: ({ output }) => ui.Text(output.message),
});

const result = callModel(client, {
  model: 'anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5',
  input: 'Greet Luke',
  tools: [greeting],
  plugins: [openui(library)],
});

for await (const event of result.getUiStream()) {
  if (event.type === 'fragment') {
    console.log(event.source);
  }
}

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…r (DEV-773)

The SDK half of the OpenUI backport from Noetic (DEV-765). Adds
packages/agent/src/lib/openui/: defineComponent/createLibrary (Zod props
with normative declaration order), the typed fragment() builder with
uiRef/uiState/uiBuiltin, OpenUI Lang expression serialization, and the
openui(library) helper producing the wire-shaped plugin preference
(Zod -> JSON Schema).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…Stream() (DEV-773)

Tools can now author OpenUI render fragments: an optional toUIOutput
sibling of toModelOutput on every executable tool shape. Fragments are
broadcast as tool.ui_fragment stream events after successful execution
(render-only, never sent to the model; a throwing toUIOutput degrades to
no-fragment).

getUiStream() on ModelResult surfaces UI events across all turns:
tool-authored fragments plus the API's response.openui.* wire events
(statement/fragment/document) from the openui plugin. Wire events not
yet in the SDK's stream-event union arrive via its forward-compat
Unknown catch-all, so translation reads the raw payload — the stream
works both before and after the SDK regen (DEV-772).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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New private package @openrouter/openui-playground: a local webapp for
testing, benching, and evaluating OpenUI generative-UI support.

- Progressive renderer over the demo component library (Stack/Card/
  Heading/Text/Stat/Badge/Table/Input/Select/Button/Progress) — UI
  materializes statement-by-statement mid-stream
- Two modes with identical event shapes: emulate (local library prompt +
  reference streaming parser over the text stream — works today) and
  native (openui() plugin + getUiStream() — flips on when DEV-771/772
  land), so the paths can be A/B'd from the history table
- Bench stats per run: TTFB, first-statement latency, total time,
  statement/diagnostic counts, token usage, cost; session history for
  comparing models and prompts
- Reference incremental OpenUI Lang parser (the same logic DEV-770
  ports into openrouter-web) with 11 conformance tests
- Plain node:http + static client; no build step

Verified end-to-end against live models: single-card and 12-statement
dashboard prompts parse clean (0 diagnostics) and render progressively.

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serializeExpr emitted object keys raw, so a key with spaces, quotes,
punctuation, or a leading digit produced source the parser rejects. Keys
come from arbitrary tool-authored objects via toExpr, so they cannot be
assumed to be identifiers. The grammar already accepts a quoted key
(parseObject branches on '"'), so quoting the rest round-trips.

String(NaN)/String(Infinity) also emitted bare identifiers, which parse
back as refs to undefined names. JSON resolves the same hole as null; do
that rather than emit source that cannot round-trip.

fix(playground): describe enum props by their values, not "string"

describeSchema returned on json.type before checking json.enum, but an
enum serializes as {type: 'string', enum: [...]} — so every enum prop was
described to the model as a plain string and it never saw which values
are legal for Badge.tone, Stack.direction, Button.variant.

docs(changeset): add the required minor changeset for the OpenUI exports

~30 new exports plus ModelResult.getUiStream and the toUIOutput tool
option had no changeset, which the public-api-examples skill requires.
The example is compile-checked against the real signatures.
The gate's no_god_files rule is fan-out > 15, not file size:
model-result.ts sat at exactly 15 outbound edges and this PR's
./openui/ui-stream.js import made it 16. Verified by removing that one
import — the violation disappears. Re-exported UiStreamEvent and
translateUiEvent from stream-transformers.js, which model-result.ts
already depends on and which owns every other wire-event translation the
loop performs, so no new edge is added.

Complex functions were 9 -> 13, all four new here. Each is split along a
seam it already had:

- translateUiEvent: one function per wire event type (cc=18 -> under)
- scanStatements: string-literal and bracket-depth state machines extracted
- generate: the native path's per-variant event mapping extracted
- renderCall: form controls and Table extracted to renderControl/renderTable

Verified with sentrux 0.5.7, the version CI pins: God files 0 -> 0,
complex functions back to 9 (the 9 remaining are all pre-existing on main
and untouched), gate reports 'No degradation detected'. Behavior unchanged
— full suite green, typecheck and lint clean.
The table of what each stream emits is the reference consumers use to
pick one; getUiStream was absent.
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cortex review — 6898806

Security · ⚠️ Experience (DX · UX · A11y) — incomplete · ⚠️ Performance — incomplete

Experience (DX · UX · A11y)

⚠️ Review incomplete for this category (failed — Invalid final response: empty or invalid output) — findings may be missing.

Performance

⚠️ Review incomplete for this category (failed — Invalid final response: empty or invalid output) — findings may be missing.

✔ 4 resolved since last push
  • uiRef / uiState / uiBuiltin names are serialized into OpenUI Lang source with no identifier validation. The serializer deliberately hardens every other value channel — strings go through JSON.stringify, non-identifier object keys are quoted, non-finite numbers become null (packages/agent/src/lib/openui/document.ts:64-113) — but ref/state/builtin names are emitted verbatim (case 'ref': return expr.name). A toUIOutput implementation that derives a ref from its input (which is model-controlled tool arguments) lets a malicious/injected model break out of the literal quoting and inject arbitrary expressions into the fragment, e.g. uiRef('x), @Run(dangerous_mutation'), which downstream renderers parse as extra action steps in what the client treats as trusted tool-authored UI. Validate names against /^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$/ at construction time. (packages/agent/src/lib/openui/fragment.ts:69)
  • Model-controlled parser diagnostics are interpolated into innerHTML unescaped → DOM XSS. d.source is passed through escapeHtml, but d.message beside it is not, and diagnostic messages embed raw model text: ExprParser.parseComplete throws trailing content after expression: '${this.src.slice(this.pos)}' (packages/openui-playground/src/lang/parser.ts) with the remainder of the model's line, and unexpected character '${ch}' / expected identifier at '...' do the same. A model output line such as a = Text("x") <img src=x onerror=...> becomes a diagnostic whose message contains the tag, which is then written into the document via innerHTML. Any prompt-injected or malicious model response therefore executes script in the playground origin — the same origin that can POST /api/generate with the server's API key. Same class at packages/openui-playground/public/app.js:447, where the user-supplied h.model string is interpolated into the history table's innerHTML. Fix: run every interpolated field through escapeHtml (or build the nodes with textContent). (packages/openui-playground/public/app.js:572)
  • API-key-backed generation endpoint listens on all interfaces with no auth or origin check. server.listen(PORT, …) defaults to 0.0.0.0, so anyone on the same network (café/office LAN, container host) can POST /api/generate with an arbitrary prompt/system/model and spend the developer's OPENROUTER_API_KEY (packages/openui-playground/src/server.ts:29-36); there is no rate limit or body-size cap on the path either (readBody, server.ts:58-65). Bind explicitly to 127.0.0.1 for a local-only tool. (packages/openui-playground/src/server.ts:190)
  • Static-file guard uses a bare string prefix check, so sibling directories escape the public root. normalize(join(PUBLIC_DIR, rel)) followed by file.startsWith(PUBLIC_DIR) accepts .../openui-playground/public-anything/...: a request for /../public.bak/secret resolves outside public/ yet still passes the prefix test and is served. Compare against PUBLIC_DIR + path.sep (or use path.relative and reject results starting with ..). (packages/openui-playground/src/server.ts:94)

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Two findings from cortex's review pass.

XSS: the diagnostics panel escaped `source` but interpolated `message` and
`line` raw into innerHTML. Every field there is model-controlled —
`ParseFailure.message` is built from the offending source line, and in
native mode diagnostics arrive verbatim off the wire — so a model could
inject markup by emitting a crafted statement. All three fields are now
escaped.

A11y: rendered Input/Select carried no accessible name, so a screen reader
announced an unlabelled field. Both signatures already have a `name` prop
that was going unused for labelling; it now sets aria-label (and the real
`name` attribute), falling back to the placeholder for Input.

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cortex panel verdict: comment — details in the consolidated review comment.

- escape diagnostic messages and history model names before innerHTML (XSS)
- bind playground server to 127.0.0.1 (API-key-backed endpoint)
- require trailing separator in static-file public-root prefix check
- validate uiRef/uiState/uiBuiltin names as identifiers at construction
- aria-label form controls from their name prop; progressbar ARIA + text %
- aria-live status/diagnostics regions; error frames no longer overwritten
  by the green 'done' status
- rename toUIOutput -> toUiOutput (match Ui casing convention pre-release)
- warn (tool name + call id) when toUiOutput throws instead of catch {}
- collect toUiOutput broadcasts and await as one batch off the follow-up
  critical path
- sticky regexes + charCode skipWs in the playground parser (was O(n^2))
- memoize openui(library) wire shape per library (WeakMap)
- drop the playground's no-op build script / outDir
…yfragment-builders' of https://github.com/OpenRouterTeam/typescript-agent into lukeparke/dev-773-typescript-agent-openui-module-libraryfragment-builders-2

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cortex panel verdict: approve — details in the consolidated review comment.

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#	pnpm-lock.yaml
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let base = evalExpr(expr.base, depth + 1);
for (const key of expr.path) {
base = base !== null ? base[key] : null;
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🟡 Playground stops rendering and shows an error when generated UI reads a nested field that is missing

A nested field lookup keeps drilling into a value that turned out to be missing (base[key] at packages/openui-playground/public/app.js:95) instead of stopping, so a generated screen that reads a two-level field the data does not have aborts the whole run with an error.

Impact: A perfectly valid model response (e.g. the data.rows.title form the playground's own prompt teaches) can kill the live render and leave the page stuck on an error message.

Mechanism: undefined intermediate in the member-path loop

evalExpr for kind: 'member' guards only against null: base = base !== null ? base[key] : null. The first hop frequently produces undefined — e.g. data = Query(...) makes the ref branch return the raw call expression object (packages/openui-playground/public/app.js:100), so expr['rows'] is undefined; the second hop then evaluates undefined['title'] and throws a TypeError.

The throw propagates out of renderSurface()handleEvent() → the for loop inside run()'s try, which catches it, calls setStatus(..., true) and stops consuming the SSE stream, so all remaining statements/stats for that run are dropped. The library prompt explicitly instructs the model to use member access with paths like data.rows.title (packages/openui-playground/src/lang/prompt.ts:60), so this is easy to hit.

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let base = evalExpr(expr.base, depth + 1);
for (const key of expr.path) {
base = base !== null ? base[key] : null;
}
return base;
let base = evalExpr(expr.base, depth + 1);
for (const key of expr.path) {
base = base === null || base === undefined ? null : base[key];
}
return base;
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const rel = urlPath === '/' ? 'index.html' : urlPath.slice(1);
const file = normalize(join(PUBLIC_DIR, rel));
if (!file.startsWith(PUBLIC_DIR)) {
sendJson(res, 404, {
error: 'not found',
});
return;
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🟨 Static file guard can be bypassed by a sibling directory name prefix

The static handler resolves the requested path and then only checks file.startsWith(PUBLIC_DIR) (packages/openui-playground/src/server.ts:95). Because PUBLIC_DIR has no trailing separator, a request such as /../public-notes/secret.txt resolves to <pkg>/public-notes/secret.txt, which still passes the prefix test, letting the dev server read files outside the intended public/ directory.

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