Overview

BoxLang AI gives you chat, agents, tools, memory, RAG, MCP, and enterprise governance through one fluent API across the leading AI providers.

BoxLang is the software productivity platform for building, modernizing and running applications, with developers and AI agents working together. BoxLang AI is how you build AI into your applications: one fluent API for chat, agents, tools, memory, RAG, MCP, and the governance controls that enterprises need.

This section summarizes the most important parts of BoxLang AI and links to the complete documentation at ai.ortusbooks.com for depth and reference.

🤔 Two Different Ideas

	Agentic development	BoxLang AI
What	Using AI agents to write your BoxLang application	Building AI features inside your application
Where	Getting Started > Agentic Development	This section

✨ What You Can Build

• Chat with streaming and typed, structured output

• Agents with instructions, memory, tools, skills, and sub-agents

• Tools that let models call your code

• Memory and RAG with 20+ memory types and many vector store integrations

• MCP clients and servers

• Governance with guardrails, prompt-injection defense, human approval, and audit trails

• Multimodal audio, image generation, and web search

• Browser agents that visit pages, fill forms, and click through web applications with bx-playwright

⚡ Quick Start

Install the module:

install-bx-module bx-ai

With CommandBox:

box install bx-ai

Configure a provider in boxlang.json, keeping keys in environment variables:

{
  "modules": {
    "bxai": {
      "settings": {
        "provider": "openai",
        "apiKey": "${OPENAI_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your first chat:

answer = aiChat( "What is BoxLang?" )
println( answer )

boxlang hello.bxs

Prefer to run models locally with no API costs? Use the ollama provider. See Providers & Gateways.

🗺️ In This Section

Chat & Structured OutputAgentsTools & SkillsMemory & RAGMCPGovernance & SecurityMultimodalProviders & Gateways

🏢 Enterprise Ready

AI in production needs more than a model call. BoxLang AI includes middleware for guardrails, retries and logging, human approval for sensitive actions, prompt-injection defense, multi-tenant memory isolation, and a flight recorder for audit trails. See Governance & Security.

Try every BoxLang+ module free for 60 days. The trial starts automatically the first time you start a BoxLang server or CLI with a BoxLang+ module installed. No sign-up and no key. Pair BoxLang AI with premium modules such as MCP + for live runtime introspection, and Couchbase + for vector memory. Enterprise support is available when you join us.

📚 Full Documentation

• BoxLang AI documentation

• Quick Start Guide

• Installation

• Built-In Function Reference

• Docs MCP server for your agent: https://ai.ortusbooks.com/~gitbook/mcp