About Vercel Ai Chat Mcp
A Next.js and AI SDK template for building chatbot applications, with model-provider options, chat persistence, and authentication. The README describes no MCP integration.
Key features
- 01Next.js App Router and Server Actions
- 02AI SDK text and tool-call generation
- 03Multiple model-provider options
- 04Chat and user-data persistence
- 05Authentication with Auth.js
Use cases
- 01Build a chatbot application with Next.js
- 02Switch among supported LLM providers
- 03Save chat history and user data
- 04Add authentication to a chat app
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
We haven’t collected a package or remote endpoint for this server. Follow the instructions in the project README.
Tools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project README
Chat SDK
Chat SDK is a free, open-source template built with Next.js and the AI SDK that helps you quickly build powerful chatbot applications.
Read Docs · Features · Model Providers · Deploy Your Own · Running locally
Features
- Next.js App Router
- Advanced routing for seamless navigation and performance
- React Server Components (RSCs) and Server Actions for server-side rendering and increased performance
- AI SDK
- Unified API for generating text, structured objects, and tool calls with LLMs
- Hooks for building dynamic chat and generative user interfaces
- Supports xAI (default), OpenAI, Fireworks, and other model providers
- shadcn/ui
- Styling with Tailwind CSS
- Component primitives from Radix UI for accessibility and flexibility
- Data Persistence
- Neon Serverless Postgres for saving chat history and user data
- Vercel Blob for efficient file storage
- Auth.js
- Simple and secure authentication
Model Providers
This template ships with xAI grok-2-1212 as the default chat model. However, with the AI SDK, you can switch LLM providers to OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, and many more with just a few lines of code.
Deploy Your Own
You can deploy your own version of the Next.js AI Chatbot to Vercel with one click:
Running locally
You will need to use the environment variables defined in .env.example to run Next.js AI Chatbot. It's recommended you use Vercel Environment Variables for this, but a .env file is all that is necessary.
Note: You should not commit your
.envfile or it will expose secrets that will allow others to control access to your various AI and authentication provider accounts.
- Install Vercel CLI:
npm i -g vercel - Link local instance with Vercel and GitHub accounts (creates
.verceldirectory):vercel link - Download your environment variables:
vercel env pull
pnpm install
pnpm dev
Your app template should now be running on localhost:3000.
Comments
New to MCP?
From what the protocol is to installing your first server, these answers cover most first questions.
An open protocol that defines how AI applications connect to external tools and data in a uniform way. Clients talk to the model; MCP servers provide tools, resources and prompt templates. They exchange standard messages, so one server can be reused by many clients.