Working Out Loud

Lets people watch an agent think: a running clock, steps that tick off along a rail, sources that slide in as they're found, and a tidy one-line summary once it's done.

akathinking·reasoning·steps

Install

Run this in any project set up for the shadcn CLI. It copies the Working Out Loud source into your components folder, so the code is yours to change.

npx shadcn@latest add https://devl.dev/r/working-out-loud.json

Use it

Import it and render it. Every prop has a typed default, so it works straight away, and you pass your own data when you’re ready.

import { WorkingOutLoud } from "@/components/working-out-loud";

export default function Page() {
  return <WorkingOutLoud />;
}

Built with

A free React component in the Conversation collection, written in TypeScript with Tailwind CSS on coss ui. MIT licensed.

npm: lucide-react, motion

Props

Read from the Working Out Loud source. Everything is optional unless it says required.

Prop	Type	Default
title	string	"Thinking"
steps	WorkingStep[]	defaultSteps
loop	boolean	false
defaultOpen	boolean	true
className	string	—

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Prop

Type

Default

title

string

"Thinking"

steps

WorkingStep[]

defaultSteps

loop

boolean

false

defaultOpen

boolean

true

className

string

—