Show HN: Tiptap AI Agent – Add AI workflows to your text editor in minutes

45 points by philipisik 350 days ago | 18 comments

We built the Tiptap AI Agent to make it easy to integrate AI into a rich text editor, without rebuilding your entire frontend.

If you’ve ever tried wiring up AI inside a document editor, you’ve probably dealt with:

  - Extracting context from complex document structures
  - Handling prompt input + streamed output
  - Supporting undo/redo for AI changes
  - Designing UI for accepting/rejecting changes
  - Multiplayer session state and conflicts

It’s a lot of work, and almost none of it is model-specific.

This new Tiptap toolkit gives you a clean way to define AI Agents that can read and edit rich text based on user-defined tasks. You can trigger agents manually, automatically, or in response to structured input.

Works with OpenAI or your own backend + LLM stack. Built on top of the same multiplayer engine behind Tiptap’s collaboration features.

We also include an AI Changes extension so users can review and accept/reject generated edits, like a built-in code review for content.

There’s a live demo here: https://ai-agent.tiptap.dev/

Developer Docs: https://tiptap.dev/docs/content-ai/capabilities/agent/overvi...

Happy to answer questions or just hear what you’re building :-)

jamsterion 350 days ago |

Looks very good! Are these new components exclusively available through the Pro package, requiring at least the paid Starter plan? Are any of the new features open source, or is all of the new functionality restricted to the paid tiers?

philipisik 350 days ago | |

Thanks for the positive feedback! You're right. The AI features are part of our paid offerings.

We're currently working on new open source features for the editor core, such as Markdown support, a decorations API, and editor content migrations: https://tiptap.dev/tiptap-editor-v3

We also recently released Hocuspocus V3 (https://github.com/ueberdosis/hocuspocus/releases/tag/v3.1.0).

jamsterion 349 days ago | | |

Thanks for the response! I have a follow-up / suggestion. Looking at pricing, it seems that the only way to get all the Content AI frontend components is to subscribe to the Team account at $149 per month. This includes 5000 documents in Tiptap cloud. For companies that only want to integrate the Editor without Collaboration (only frontend, we need full control of the documents on our backend, and also directly call the LLM ourselves), do you plan to offer any options? Thanks

6stringmerc 350 days ago |

If used in a legally binding setting to does your firm accept liability for erroneous output resulting in litigation proceedings or financial loss? Serious question because I’m a human working in a similar niche.

If not, how do you phrase that in your ToS and what is your Errors and Omissions policy language like?

philipisik 350 days ago | |

We don't know the use case and content... We're providing the tools to build the editor-AI-UX, which you can then connect to the LLM of your choice.

In our AI extensions, we provide callbacks like onSuccess that you can hook into, to send analytics events and track the AI's responses.

andrewingram 350 days ago | |

I don't work for Tiptap, but I'm curious as to what your expectations are here.

They're providing tools for integrating Tiptap with AI, including ones for reviewing suggested changes that come from LLMs. I don't really see something that Tiptap should be accepting liability for. As the developer working with Tiptap, I'd argue it's your responsibility to make sure (a) the prompts are giving generally good and useful output, and (b) that you incorporate any necessary UI to put a human in the loop of accepting the AI output. On the latter point, their AI Changes extension is one such example, but there are any number of ways of achieving this.

dedicate 350 days ago |

I gotta say, the focus on all that non-model-specific heavy lifting for AI in editors? That's the real MVP move here. So much of the AI hype is just about the model, but integrating it smoothly is where most projects probably hit a wall.

philipisik 350 days ago | |

Agreed, adding Cursor-like AI features to a rich text editor is way harder than it should be... You have to handle prompts, context management, streaming, error states, UI, undo/redo, multiplayer sync, AI UX, it all adds up fast.

andrewingram 350 days ago |

If using tiptap as a collaborative editor, are the pending AI Changes (the red/green diff applied to the editor contents) visible to all users, or just the current one?

Ideally it's the latter, but it's non-obvious to me.

ainau-tiptap 350 days ago | |

In this first version of the AI Agent, the changes are visible to all users as soon as the AI Agent inserts them into the document. However, we are going to implement the other option if there is demand for it. It is in our backlog.

yutingduan 350 days ago |

Huh I really like the inline accept / reject button upon clicking

would be nice to customize the diff view colors and button styles

will play with the integration. Very cool stuff!

philipisik 350 days ago | |

Thanks for your feedback! It's highly customizable. Feel free to let us know if you need any additional options to meet your specific needs. We're happy to help!

gunniho 350 days ago |

Awesome job Tiptap, looks really powerful.

Is it possible to allow the agent to work on multiple documents for the same user/group?

ainau-tiptap 350 days ago | |

Yes, absolutely. You can hook the AI Agent to your custom tools that let it browse and switch files. Just like you would do when building a coding AI Agent. It's exciting but also complex to do, that's why we haven't provided an example of how to do it yet. We're still figuring it out, and we'll work on improving multi-file support in the next releases.

gunniho 350 days ago | | |

Ah, got it. What are the main things that make it complex to work on multiple files?

mplatts 349 days ago |

Is there a github repo to copy from?