Building a production AI agent in TypeScript with Mastra: a 2026 step-by-step.

Short summary

This tutorial walks through building a production AI agent in TypeScript using Mastra, a framework with 24k+ GitHub stars that reduces boilerplate from ~400 lines to ~60. It covers project scaffolding, agent configuration with model routing across 40+ providers, custom tool creation, persistent memory, and HTTP deployment. Code examples use Anthropic's Claude but switching providers is a one-line change.

• •Mastra cuts agent boilerplate from ~400 lines to ~60 with TypeScript-first primitives
• •Covers scaffolding, agent config, custom tools, memory, and deployment in ~45 min
• •Supports 40+ model providers through a unified router; code examples use Anthropic Claude

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