# Tambo

> Build agents that speak your UI

Tambo is the open-source generative UI toolkit for React. Built for product engineers adding AI features to existing apps.

## Summary

- Canonical discovery entrypoint for all LLM tools (start here, always): https://tambo.co/llms.txt
- Optional deep-dive API and architecture docs for tools that need more detail: https://docs.tambo.co/llms.txt
- Optional full-site content (including blog posts and product pages) for richer semantic grounding: https://tambo.co/llms-full.txt
- Product: open-source generative UI toolkit for React
- Primary use: agents render real UI components with validated props
- SDK: @tambo-ai/react

## What Tambo Does

Tambo lets any React app add AI features that show real UI—not just chat responses. When a user asks "show me sales by region," the agent renders an actual interactive chart, not a text summary. Register your components, and the agent picks the right one and streams the props.

It's a drop-in fullstack solution: a React SDK plus a backend that handles conversation state and agent execution. No separate agent framework required.

### Core Features

- **Your Components**: Register them once with Zod schemas. The agent renders your UI with the right props.
- **Agent Included**: No LangChain or Mastra required. Drop Tambo in and ship features, not infrastructure.
- **Streaming & Error Handling**: Real-time streaming, cancellation, error states, reconnection—already solved.
- **Agent-Native Auth**: The agent inherits your user's permissions. No separate auth layer to build.
- **MCP Support**: Full Model Context Protocol support built in.
- **Conversation Memory**: Persistent message threads across interactions.

## Quick Start

```bash
npm create tambo-app
```

Or add to an existing project:

```bash
npm install @tambo-ai/react
```

## Resources

- Documentation: https://docs.tambo.co
- GitHub: https://github.com/tambo-ai/tambo
- Component Library: https://ui.tambo.co
- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/dJNvPEHth6
- Twitter: https://x.com/tambo_ai

## Pricing

- **Starter**: Free forever (self-hosted)
- **Growth**: $25/month (managed infrastructure)
- **Enterprise**: Custom pricing (on-prem, SSO, SOC 2, HIPAA)

## Built With Tambo

Examples of apps built with Tambo:
- db-thing: Natural language SQL query interface
- Strudel AI: AI-powered music creation
- CheatSheet: AI document assistant

## Testimonials

> Tambo was insanely easy to get up and running—it's how you get a full chatbot from frontend to backend in minutes. I plugged it into my UI on a Friday and demoed it to my team on Monday.
> — Jean-Philippe Bergeron, Sr. Fullstack Engineer at Solink

> It's like if you gave AI your Storybook and told it could only use your design system. We already had our Zod schema, so transitioning to Tambo was a one line change that cut out so much work.
> — Richard McHorgh, AI Software Engineer at Rocket Money

> When I first started using Tambo, the components appeared exactly like we have them in our style guide and Storybook—it was the first sign of production-grade UI generation.
> — Andrew Kordampalos, Sr. Software Engineer, AI Agents at Zapier

## About

Tambo is developed by Fractal Dynamics Inc. The toolkit is open-source and free to self-host forever.

Website: https://tambo.co

## API Docs and Full Context

For API details and full-site semantic context, start from the canonical entrypoint above, which links to:

- API and implementation docs: https://docs.tambo.co/llms.txt
- Full-site semantic context (including blog posts and product pages): https://tambo.co/llms-full.txt