Agents, Workers AI, AI Gateway – createAI replaces workers-ai-provider and ai-gateway-provider

The Agents SDK has a new createAI function for the AI SDK and Pi AI. It unifies what workers-ai-provider and ai-gateway-provider did: Workers AI models, AI Gateway catalog models, dynamic routes, and vendor models, through the AI binding or an account id and API token.

workers-ai-provider and ai-gateway-provider are now feature frozen and marked as deprecated. Please migrate at your convenience.

npm i agents

import { createAI } from "agents/models/ai-sdk";
import { streamText } from "ai";

export default {
	async fetch(request, env) {
		const ai = createAI({ binding: env.AI, id: "my-gateway" });

		const result = streamText({
			model: ai("anthropic/claude-opus-5.5", {
				fallback: ["@cf/zai-org/glm-4.7-flash"],
			}),
			prompt: "Write a haiku about Durable Objects",
		});

		return result.toTextStreamResponse();
	},
};

import { createAI } from "agents/models/ai-sdk";
import { streamText } from "ai";

export default {
	async fetch(request: Request, env: Env) {
		const ai = createAI({ binding: env.AI, id: "my-gateway" });

		const result = streamText({
			model: ai("anthropic/claude-opus-5.5", {
				fallback: ["@cf/zai-org/glm-4.7-flash"],
			}),
			prompt: "Write a haiku about Durable Objects",
		});

		return result.toTextStreamResponse();
	},
};

With createAI you get:

• Every model by id. Workers AI @cf/ ids, any model in the AI Gateway catalog, and dynamic routes as dynamic/<route>.
• Vendor model objects. Pass a model from the vendor’s own package, such as ai(anthropic("claude-opus-5-5")). It goes unchanged to AI Gateway’s provider-native endpoint.
• The binding, or an account id and API token. Use a gateway in another account, or call from outside a Worker.
• Gateway options, fallback, and BYOK. Caching, logging, metadata, retries, byokAlias, zdr, and vendorKey.
• Stream resume. Through the binding, a catalog or dynamic route stream that drops mid-answer resumes.
• Other model types. Embeddings, images, speech, transcription, and reranking in the AI SDK provider, and images in Pi AI.

For AI Search, use ai-search-provider. For more information, refer to Models.

Source: Cloudflare