Message

A React component in Beamline's AI & agents category.

One turn in a conversation with an agent: the person's words in a quiet bubble, the agent's answer on the page with its orb mark, trace, tool calls and actions, or what went wrong with the way forward.

Use it for

• Chat with an agent or assistant: questions, answers, traces, tool calls.

Not for

• People talking to people (chat-thread).
• Notifications (toast, notification-center).

Anatomy

• Message (row, from user | assistant)
• MessageAgent (orb mark) or MessageAvatar (person)
• MessageContent (bubble for the person; page for the agent, or a bubble when contained). Bubbles are flat theme surfaces with a hairline in every look (content, not panels); long unbroken text wraps inside them
• MessageActions › MessageAction (copy, retry, rate; icon buttons with tooltips)
• MessageError (icon and what went wrong, then the way forward; Retry moves under the text when the turn is narrow; role alert)

Variants

• variant: flat (default: agent on the page), contained (both in bubbles, for narrow side panels)

States

• streaming (orb thinking)
• settled
• actions on hover or focus; always on the latest answer and on touch screens
• failed (MessageError)

Keyboard

• Actions are buttons with tooltips; Tab reaches them even while hidden (they show on focus).

Motion

Actions appear at once on hover and fade out over --motion-out; the orb breathes at rest and swirls while the agent works (paused off screen).

Props

Built from

• avatar
• button
• tooltip
• orb

Dependencies

lucide-react

Import

import { MessageContent, Message, MessageAvatar, MessageAgent, MessageError, MessageActions } from "@/components/message/message";

Get it

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