Everything sgcAI does, mapped across the 15 components on the SGC AI palette page. Chat with seven model providers through one component, host or consume a Model Context Protocol server, index your own data as vectors, and drive the whole thing by voice. Every license ships full source code. Click a component for its own page with properties, events and examples.
sgcAI is self-contained. Everything in the tables below ships in one package, together with the sgcWebSockets Core runtime the components are built on. There is no base license to buy.
sgcAI is a Windows product. The AI package is compiled under MSWINDOWS only, so 13 of the 15 palette components are registered for Win32 and Win64 and do not build for macOS, Linux, iOS or Android.
The two Model Context Protocol components, TsgcWSAPIServer_MCP and TsgcWSAPIClient_MCP, are the exception. They carry no platform restriction and run wherever the sgc HTTP stack runs. See Platforms & languages below.
7 providers, 4 components
Client and server
RAG over your own data
System, Google, Amazon
MCI and Wave
Windows Win32 and Win64, MCP pair cross-platform
All of them register on a single palette page named SGC AI.
| Component | Class | Family | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Chat | TsgcAIChat | Chat | One chat client for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, Grok and Mistral. |
| OpenAI ChatBot | TsgcAIOpenAIChatBot | Chat | Voice chatbot: record, transcribe with Whisper, answer, speak the reply. |
| OpenAI Translator | TsgcAIOpenAITranslator | Chat | Speech in, speech out translation to English. |
| OpenAI Assistant | TsgcAIOpenAIAssistant | Chat | Assistants API: threads, runs, File Search, Code Interpreter, function calling. |
| MCP Server | TsgcWSAPIServer_MCP | MCP | Publish tools, prompts and resources over HTTP or HTTP Streamable. |
| MCP Client | TsgcWSAPIClient_MCP | MCP | Consume any MCP server over HTTP, HTTP Streamable or stdio. |
| OpenAI Embeddings | TsgcAIOpenAIEmbeddings | Vectors | Generate embeddings from text or a file and query the nearest match. |
| Vector Database (File) | TsgcAIDatabaseVectorFile | Vectors | Local file-backed vector store, no server and no account. |
| Vector Database (Pinecone) | TsgcAIDatabaseVectorPinecone | Vectors | Managed vector index through the Pinecone REST API. |
| Text to Speech (System) | TsgcTextToSpeechSystem | Speech | Speaks through the engine installed on the machine, no key required. |
| Text to Speech (Google) | TsgcTextToSpeechGoogle | Speech | Google Cloud Text-to-Speech with service account authentication. |
| Text to Speech (Amazon) | TsgcTextToSpeechAmazon | Speech | Amazon Polly with signed AWS requests and SSML support. |
| Audio Recorder (MCI) | TsgcAudioRecorderMCI | Audio | Microphone capture to a WAV file with silence detection. |
| Audio Recorder (Wave) | TsgcAudioRecorderWave | Audio | Streaming microphone capture with full control of the sample format. |
| Audio Player (MCI) | TsgcAudioPlayerMCI | Audio | Playback with a genuine end-of-playback notification. |
Seven providers reached through one Provider property, plus three OpenAI components for voice and agent scenarios.
| Capability | Component | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | TsgcAIChat | Provider := aicpOpenAI. GPT models through the Chat Completions API. |
| Anthropic | TsgcAIChat | Provider := aicpAnthropic. Claude models through the Messages API. |
| Google Gemini | TsgcAIChat | Provider := aicpGemini. |
| DeepSeek | TsgcAIChat | Provider := aicpDeepSeek. deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner. |
| Ollama (local models) | TsgcAIChat | Provider := aicpOllama. ChatOptions.BaseUrl points at your own host, nothing leaves the machine. |
| xAI Grok | TsgcAIChat | Provider := aicpGrok. |
| Mistral | TsgcAIChat | Provider := aicpMistral. |
| Blocking call | TsgcAIChat | Chat(aMessage) returns the assistant text. |
| Streaming | TsgcAIChat | ChatStream plus OnChatStream, which carries a Cancel flag to abort mid-generation. |
| Asynchronous | TsgcAIChat | ChatAsync returns a future on Delphi 2010 and later. |
| System prompt | TsgcAIChat | SystemMessage for every turn, or ChatWithSystem for a single turn. |
| Bounded history | TsgcAIChat | MaxHistoryMessages caps the replayed context. ClearHistory and GetHistory manage the transcript. |
| Sampling controls | TsgcAIChat | MaxTokens, Temperature and TopP. Leave the last two unset and the provider default applies. |
| Speech to text | TsgcAIOpenAIChatBot, TsgcAIOpenAITranslator | Whisper transcription and translation, with an event to review the text before use. |
| Retrieval augmented answers | TsgcAIOpenAIChatBot | Link an Embeddings component and the retrieved context is added before the model is called. |
| Assistants, threads and runs | TsgcAIOpenAIAssistant | CreateAssistant, CreateThread, CreateMessageText, CreateRun, CreateRunAndWait. |
| File Search and Code Interpreter | TsgcAIOpenAIAssistant | AssistantOptions.Tools, with UploadVectorStoreFile to add your own documents. |
| Function calling | TsgcAIOpenAIAssistant | Tools.Functions plus the OnFunctionCall event. |
Both ends of the protocol that AI clients use to reach tools, prompts and resources.
| Capability | Client | Server | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP JSON-RPC transport | aimcptrHttp | TransportOptions.Http | One request, one response, connection closes. |
| HTTP Streamable transport | aimcptrHttpStreamable | TransportOptions.HttpStreamable | Keep-alive plus an SSE stream, which is what carries notifications and server-initiated requests. |
| stdio transport | aimcptrStdio | separate stdio host | The client spawns a local subprocess. Server-side stdio is provided by a dedicated host class rather than the palette component. |
| Handshake | Initialize | OnMCPInitialize | Capability negotiation and session id assignment. |
| Sessions | Session, HeartBeat | OnMCPSessionNew, OnMCPSessionEnd, SessionTimeout | Idle sessions expire on the server, the client can keep one alive with periodic pings. |
| Tools | ListTools, RequestTool | Tools, OnMCPRequestTool | List and call. The server raises an event where your code does the work. |
| Prompts | ListPrompts, RequestPrompt | Prompts, OnMCPRequestPrompt | Same pattern as tools. |
| Resources | ListResources, RequestResource, ListResourceTemplates | Resources, ResourceTemplates, OnMCPRequestResource | Lists accept a cursor for paging. |
| Resource subscriptions | SubscribeResource, UnsubscribeResource | SendNotificationResourcesUpdated | Follow a resource and be told when it changes. |
| List-changed notifications | received | SendNotificationToolsListChanged and the prompt and resource equivalents | Requires the streamable transport. |
| Roots | OnMCPListRoots | RequestRootsList | The server asks the client which filesystem roots it may use. |
| Sampling | OnMCPSamplingCreateMessage | RequestSamplingCreateMessage | The server asks the client's model for a completion. |
| Elicitation | OnMCPElicitationCreate | RequestElicitationCreate | The server asks the user for input through the client. |
| Completion | Complete | handled | Argument value completion for tools and prompts. |
| Logging | SetLoggingLevel | SendLogMessage | Structured log messages at a client-controlled level. |
| Authentication | API key, custom header, OAuth 2.0 | API key, custom header, OAuth 2.0 | MCPOptions.AuthenticationOptions on both sides. |
| Built-in authorization server | — | ✓ | Dynamic client registration, consent page, PKCE and refresh tokens, following RFC 8414 and RFC 9728. |
| Origin validation | — | HttpStreamable.ValidateOrigin | Pins a session to the Origin header it was created with. |
Turn your own documents into vectors, store them locally or in a managed index, and retrieve context for every question.
| Capability | File store | Pinecone | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generate embeddings | ✓ | ✓ | TsgcAIOpenAIEmbeddings.CreateEmbeddings and CreateEmbeddingsFromFile. |
| Chunking | ✓ | ✓ | EmbeddingsOptions.ChunkSize, default 4096 characters. |
| Embedding model | ✓ | ✓ | EmbeddingsOptions.Model, default text-embedding-3-small. |
| Batch upsert | write on close | single REST upsert | BeginAddData, AddData, EndAddData on both stores. |
| Nearest neighbour query | QueryData | QueryData | Returns the stored source text behind the closest vector. |
| Retrieve context for a prompt | ✓ | ✓ | GetEmbedding(aInput, aParams) embeds the query and returns the best match. |
| Progress and cancel | ✓ | ✓ | OnCreateEmbeddingsStart, OnCreateEmbeddingsProgress with a continue flag, OnCreateEmbeddingsStop. |
| Per-chunk hooks | ✓ | ✓ | OnBeforeCreateEmbedding can veto a request, OnAfterCreateEmbedding reports request and response. |
| Works offline | ✓ | — | The file store needs no network on query. Generating embeddings still calls the provider. |
| Shared across machines | — | ✓ | A Pinecone index can be written by one application and read by another. |
| Configuration | VectorFileOptions.InputFilename, VectorFilename | PineconeOptions, PineconeIndexOptions | Two files, or an API key plus index and project id. |
| Id control | OnBeginAddData | OnBeginAddData | Set the first id and the id label so several ingests can share a store. |
All three share one interface, so the chatbot, translator and assistant accept any of them.
| Capability | System | Amazon | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speak a string | TextToSpeech | TextToSpeech | TextToSpeech |
| Needs credentials | no | service account JSON | AWS access key and secret |
| Needs a network | no | yes | yes |
| Cost per character | none | provider pricing | provider pricing |
| Voice selection | machine speech settings | Language, VoiceId, Gender | Engine, VoiceId |
| Output format | direct playback | AudioEncoding, FileName | OutputFormat, FileName |
| SSML | — | — | TextType |
| Audio player required | no | yes, AudioPlayer | yes, AudioPlayer |
| Authentication handling | — | signed JWT with a cached access token | AWS Signature Version 4 |
| Start and stop events | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Two recorders with different trade-offs, and the player that closes the voice loop.
| Capability | Recorder (MCI) | Recorder (Wave) | Player (MCI) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows API used | MCI | waveIn | MCI |
| Output | WAV file | live stream | plays a file |
| Sample format control | fixed, 16 bit mono 22050 Hz | SampleRate, Channels, BitsPerSample | — |
| Silence detection | MCIOptions.LevelMin, StopAfter | WaveOptions.LevelMin, StopAfter, WaitForAudio | — |
| Manual or automatic | RecorderOptions.Mode: camoManual or camoAuto | Start and Stop | Play |
| Concurrent instances | ✓, unique MCI alias per component | ✓ | ✓ |
| End of playback notification | — | — | ✓, real MCI notification, not a timer |
| Used by the voice components | default recorder | streaming scenarios | output of the cloud speech components |
What is supported, stated precisely.
| Area | Detail |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows only. SGC_AI is defined under MSWINDOWS alone, and it gates the whole SGC AI palette registration. There is no macOS, Linux, iOS or Android build of the AI components, with the single exception of the MCP pair below. |
| Delphi | Delphi 7 through RAD Studio 13 Florence, VCL and FireMonkey, targeting Win32 and Win64. |
| C++ Builder | C++ Builder 10.1 Berlin through C++ Builder 13, through the generated headers, targeting Win32 and Win64. |
| AI palette components | 13 of the 15 components are declared [ComponentPlatforms(pidWin32 or pidWin64)]. The chat, agent, embeddings, vector, speech and audio components are Win32 and Win64 only. |
| MCP components | The exception. TsgcWSAPIServer_MCP and TsgcWSAPIClient_MCP are declared [ComponentPlatforms(0)], so they carry no platform restriction and run wherever the sgc HTTP stack runs, including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android. |
| Bundled runtime | The sgcWebSockets Core runtime is included, so the HTTP client stack, the JSON layer and the HTTP server behind the MCP server API need no separate license. |
| TLS | OpenSSL or SChannel for every provider call, following the sgcWebSockets configuration. |
| Source code | Full Object Pascal source in every paid tier. |
| Redistribution | Binaries you build are royalty free, with no per-seat or per-server runtime fee. |