Build multi-modal AI applications using our new open-source Vision AI SDK.

Tutorials

Build a Voice Agent That Calls to Confirm Fraud Alerts

Build a Python voice agent with Vision Agents that places an outbound call to a cardholder, reads back a suspicious transaction, and either clears it or freezes the card - using Deepgram, an LLM, Cartesia, and Twilio.

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MyOutDesk Cut Chat Code 50% Moving Off PubNub

When PubNub overages and missing messages hit a 2,500-person workforce, MyOutDesk moved to Stream Chat in under two weeks and cut its chat code in half. Here is what happened.

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How Stream Chat Authentication Works: User Tokens, Refresh, and Secret Handling

Stream Chat authentication works by having your backend sign short-lived JWTs with your API secret. This guide covers the four credentials in play, how to wire token refresh with a tokenProvider, and why your API secret must never leave the server.

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Build a Stream Chat App With Xcode 26.3's Coding Agent

Xcode 26.3 ships with a built-in coding agent backed by Claude. Pair it with Stream's Agent Skills and you can build a working SwiftUI chat app from a single goal-level prompt - channel list, message thread, and composer - then iterate without leaving the IDE. This is a build log of exactly that, including the WebSocket race condition the agent diagnosed by reading the SDK source.

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How to Build a Background Removal Tool with Segment Anything & Vision Agents

A step-by-step guide to building a real-time background removal tool with SAM 2, YOLO, and Vision Agents. Runs on a CPU, no GPU required.

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Stream Skills: Build a Marketplace App To Buy, Sell, and Shop Online

Let's build an online marketplace platform that enables safe, secure buying and selling, combining Stream's AI agent skills for chat, activity feed, moderation, and video into a unified product. What You Can Build Agent Skills improve developers' productivity and help them integrate features more quickly and build complex applications from scratch. Stream now has skills

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Using AI Agent Skills: Build an iOS Chat Messaging App With a Single Prompt

As developers, we typically spend time reading docs and tutorials, and watching YouTube videos to integrate APIs and SDKs to add specific functionality to apps and services. These integrations can now be completed much more quickly using AI Agent Skills. Agent Skills are sets of instructions, scripts, and reference documents that equip AI models to

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Gemini Live API & Lyria 3: Generate Music From Text, Phone & Video Calls

The instrumental background music in the video below is AI-generated using Lyria 3 by Google DeepMind. Lyria 3 allows anyone to generate AI music from text and image prompts. The music demos in this article take it further by adding another input prompt modality, your voice. Let's proceed to generate your first music with Lyria

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