Welcome to Chainlit
Build python production-ready conversational AI applications in minutes, not weeks
Notice: Chainlit is now community-maintained. As of May 1st 2025, the original Chainlit team has stepped back from active development. The project is maintained by @Chainlit/chainlit-maintainers under a formal Maintainer Agreement.
Maintainers are responsible for code review, releases, and security.
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Installation
Open a terminal and run:
chainlit hello
If this opens the hello app in your browser, you're all set!
Development version
The latest in-development version can be installed straight from GitHub with:
(Requires Node and pnpm installed on the system.)
Quickstart
Pure Python
Create a new file demo.py with the following code:
@cl.step(type="tool")
async def tool():
# Fake tool
await cl.sleep(2)
return "Response from the tool!"
@cl.on_message # this function will be called every time a user inputs a message in the UI
async def main(message: cl.Message):
"""
This function is called every time a user inputs a message in the UI.
It sends back an intermediate response from the tool, followed by the final answer.
Args:
message: The user's message.
Returns:
None.
"""
# Call the tool
tool_res = await tool()
await cl.Message(content=tool_res).send()
Now run it!
More Examples - Cookbook
You can find various examples of Chainlit apps here that leverage tools and services such as OpenAI, Anthropis, LangChain, LlamaIndex, ChromaDB, Pinecone and more.
Tell us what you would like to see added in Chainlit using the Github issues or on Discord.
Contributing
As an open-source initiative in a rapidly evolving domain, we welcome contributions, be it through the addition of new features or the improvement of documentation.
For detailed information on how to contribute, see here.
License
Chainlit is open-source and licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.