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Closes AIT-1226.

Collapses Getting started > About AI Transport and Why AI Transport? > Overview into one page, and moves Why AI Transport? above Getting started:

Why AI Transport?            Getting started
  Overview                     By SDK
  HTTP streaming and AI        Set up authentication
                               Configure the channel rule

The merged page stays at /docs/ai-transport so the product entry point keeps its URL. /docs/ai-transport/why redirects to it and picks up the /docs/ai-transport/concepts/infrastructure redirect the deleted page carried. why/http-streaming-and-ai.mdx keeps its URL.

The page is rewritten rather than concatenated. It opens on the failure modes a reader already has, uses one comparison table as the central artifact with the feature links in it, adds a section on what adopting a session layer costs you, and shows both the agent-side and client-side code seams. Claims the old pages made that roadmap.mdx, the feature pages, or the SDK typings do not support have been dropped.

The other five files are link updates to match.

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Two pages at the top of the AI Transport nav were doing overlapping jobs:
"About AI Transport" introduced the product, and "Why AI Transport"
argued for it. A reader arriving from marketing or from another product's
docs had to read both to get either answer, and each page repeated the
other's framing. Collapsing them puts the high-level content in one place
and lets the "Why AI Transport?" section sit above "Getting started",
where the question it answers actually gets asked.

The merged page keeps /docs/ai-transport, because that is the URL 26
inbound references already use as the product entry point, and moving it
would have put a redirect on the highest-traffic path into the section.

The page is written to answer necessity rather than comprehension. Two
founder calls in late July concluded that readers understood the product
and still could not see why they needed it before a V2, and that the
scale-oriented framing actively invited "nice to have". So the page opens
on the failure modes a reader already has, states that the threshold is
response duration rather than traffic volume, shows both seams that
change when retrofitting an application that already streams, and names
the constraints and dependencies adoption brings.

Several claims carried by the old pages are gone because the roadmap, the
feature pages, and the SDK do not support them: LangChain and native
model-provider integrations, human handover, two platform statistics that
appear nowhere else in the docs, and a publish-order guarantee that
message-ordering.mdx explicitly refutes for cross-region publishers.

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VeskeR marked this pull request as draft July 31, 2026 09:51
The tradeoffs table hung data portability off webhook and Kafka egress,
which does not support it: those sources document channel.message, and
nothing says the append operations that carry a streamed response are
delivered outbound. Dropping the claim entirely was the wrong correction,
because database hydration does support it by a different route: an agent
that persists each completed run holds the conversation, since the union
of completed runs reconstructs it losslessly.

Gives that its own row sourced to database hydration, and leaves webhooks
and Kafka scoped to the analytics and audit use they are documented for.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@VeskeR VeskeR changed the title Merge the AI Transport About and Why pages into one landing page [AIT-1226] Merge the AI Transport About and Why pages into one landing page Jul 31, 2026
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