Vercel Chat SDK adds Instagram DMs — build IG inbox bots in TS
One @chat-adapter/instagram install wires DMs, media, reactions and story replies into the same bot as Slack and WhatsApp — mind Meta's 24-hour window.
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One install, Instagram's inbox is yours
Add `@chat-adapter/instagram`, call `createInstagramAdapter`, and your bot handles Instagram DMs — media, quick-reply cards, link buttons, typing indicators, reactions and story replies. You'll need a Meta Business or Creator account connected to Instagram's Messaging API.
The two gotchas to design around
Meta caps bot replies to a 24-hour window after the user's last message, so build any re-engagement inside that limit. And streamed model output is buffered into a single message on delivery — there's no token-by-token typing effect on IG.
Write the bot once, run it in every inbox
Instagram joins Chat SDK's lineup — Slack, Teams, Google Chat, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, plus the recent Messenger and X adapters — behind one TypeScript interface, so you can swap channels without rewriting your bot logic.
Elsewhere: Cline drops into the AI SDK harness
Vercel also shipped `@ai-sdk/harness-cline` on Aug 18, letting you drive the Cline coding agent through the same `HarnessAgent` interface as the rest of the AI SDK — built in collaboration with the Cline team.