openui

Name: openui
Author: thesysdev

Build generative UI apps with OpenUI and OpenUI Lang — the token-efficient open standard for LLM-generated interfaces. Use when mentioning OpenUI, @openuidev,…

INSTALLATION

npx skills add https://github.com/thesysdev/openui --skill openui

Run in your project or agent environment. Adjust flags if your CLI version differs.

SKILL.md

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OpenUI Lang Overview

OpenUI Lang is a compact, declarative, line-oriented DSL. The LLM generates this instead of JSON or markdown.

Syntax Rules (Critical)

One statement per line: identifier = Expression

Root entry point: The first statement MUST assign to the identifier root.

Top-down generation: Write Layout → Components → Data for best streaming performance.

Positional arguments: Arguments map to component props by position, determined by key order in the Zod schema.

Forward references (hoisting): An identifier can be referenced before it's defined — the renderer shows a skeleton/placeholder until the definition arrives.

Example:

root = Stack([header, stats])

header = TextContent("Q4 Dashboard", "large-heavy")

stats = Grid([s1, s2])

s1 = StatCard("Revenue", "$1.2M", "up")

s2 = StatCard("Users", "450k", "flat")

Documentation

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For comprehensive reference, fetch the full documentation:

https://www.openui.com/llms-full.txt

For a topic index (page titles and descriptions only):

https://www.openui.com/llms.txt

When you need detail on a specific topic, fetch the relevant page from the allowlist below:

Topic

URL

Quickstart & scaffolding

https://www.openui.com/docs/openui-lang/quickstart

Defining components

https://www.openui.com/docs/openui-lang/defining-components

System prompts

https://www.openui.com/docs/openui-lang/system-prompts

Renderer

https://www.openui.com/docs/openui-lang/renderer

Language specification

https://www.openui.com/docs/openui-lang/specification

Interactivity

https://www.openui.com/docs/openui-lang/interactivity

Built-in component library

https://www.openui.com/docs/openui-lang/standard-library

SDK Packages

Package

Purpose

When to use

@openuidev/react-lang

Core: defineComponent, createLibrary, Renderer, parser

Every OpenUI project

@openuidev/react-headless

Chat state: ChatProvider, hooks, streaming adapters (OpenAI, AG-UI)

Custom chat UI

@openuidev/react-ui

Prebuilt layouts (Copilot, FullScreen, BottomTray) + built-in libraries

Fast path to working chat

Scaffolding

npx @openuidev/cli@latest create --name my-genui-app

cd my-genui-app

echo "OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-your-key-here" > .env

npm run dev

Framework Integration

OpenUI works with any LLM framework. The scaffolded app uses Next.js with the OpenAI SDK. Integration patterns exist for: Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic Agents SDK, Google ADK, and any framework that produces a text stream.

The core integration point is always the same: send the system prompt (from library.prompt()) to your LLM, then feed the streamed text into <Renderer />.