AgentLab is releasing UniQuick, a “deploy in one prompt” backend for AI-built web apps at the University of Illinois. It targets the hardest part of building with an AI coding agent: not the front end, but everything behind it—authentication, a database, file storage, realtime, and an AI key.
The Problem
AI coding agents are great at generating a front end. But the moment an app needs to remember anything, sign someone in, or call an AI model, a non-developer hits a wall: accounts to create, API keys to manage, servers to provision. That wall is where most first projects die.
UniQuick removes it. Faculty and students describe the app they want—a poll, a guestbook, a live dashboard, an AI tutor—and the agent deploys it to a campus URL in seconds, with the backend already in place.
Five Services, Already Wired In
- Illinois sign-in — every visitor is verified by NetID through campus SSO, with no accounts to build.
- Shared data — per-site storage readable and writable straight from the browser SDK, with no schema to manage.
- File uploads — an Azure blob store with capability-URL upload links.
- Realtime — WebSocket rooms out of the box for live cursors, presence, and multiplayer.
- AI — a managed Azure OpenAI proxy, so builders never handle an API key, metered with a per-visitor daily token budget.
Stack: Fastify 5 (ESM) on Azure, PostgreSQL, Azure blob storage, WebSocket rooms, Entra ID SSO. Ships a browser SDK, a CLI, and an MCP server—published as the open-source uniquick package on npm. View on GitHub →
An On-Ramp to Agentic Tools
UniQuick is deliberately a low floor, not a high ceiling. One npx command—no clone, no setup—and an agent can start deploying. An opt-in public gallery lets people discover and reuse what others have built, and AI usage is metered per end-user so a popular app can’t run up campus cost and creators are never charged for their students’ usage.
UniQuick is live at quick.disruptionlab.illinois.edu. Visit the UniQuick project page for the full architecture, or get started with your own agent.