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Problem

A consumer embedding Thread has no supported way to add a product-specific control to the surfaces Thread owns: an admin-only diagnostic in the assistant message's "More" menu, a citation count beside Copy and Reload, a mode toggle in the composer's action row. Today that means forking the component or wrapping and re-implementing it, both of which drift from upstream fixes.

Guarantee

Five additive slots on ThreadComponents, each a ComponentType defaulting to unset so no existing caller's render changes:

  • AssistantMoreItems — renders after the built-in Export as Markdown item in the "More" menu.
  • AssistantActionBarExtra — renders as the last item in the action bar's own row, after "More".
  • AssistantMessageFooterExtra — renders as a block-level sibling after the whole footer row (action bar and branch picker both), for content a bar-row trigger expands that doesn't belong inside the bar's own single icon row.
  • Indicator — replaces the pending affordance shown for a running assistant message with no content yet.
  • ComposerExtra — renders in the composer's own action row, beside the attach button.

A colocated test (renders identically to today when no append point is set) asserts the default path, including that the composer's attach button keeps its original parent (no new wrapper element), plus one test per slot for placement and ordering.

Bonus

Indicator's default now renders the shipped ThinkingIndicator in place of a hand-drawn pulsing span — a plain improvement for every existing caller whether or not they ever set the slot.

Docs

apps/docs/content/elements/thread.mdx gets a new paragraph in Getting Started framing the five as append points, plus five new rows in the ThreadComponents API table.

Fixes #8002

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ThreadComponents gains AssistantMoreItems, AssistantActionBarExtra,
AssistantMessageFooterExtra, Indicator, and ComposerExtra, each an
optional ComponentType that renders nothing by default so no existing
caller's render changes. Indicator's default now renders the shipped
ThinkingIndicator in place of a hand-drawn pulsing span, a plain
improvement for every caller whether or not the slot is ever set.

Fixes assistant-ui#8002

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merge after small fixes — Registry delivery is fixed; the More-menu append point still needs an accessible item contract

The registry delivery gap is corrected: thread now declares elements-thinking-indicator.json, and the Eve bundle includes it. The remaining blocking issue is the AssistantMoreItems contract: it is inserted directly under the Radix menu content, while the test and API docs permit a bare component, so a consumer can create a menu without accessible menu items.

Please either wrap AssistantMoreItems output in ActionBarMorePrimitive.Item, or change the public slot contract and its documentation and tests so every supported implementation renders an accessible menu item, with the canary asserting role="menuitem".

The default Indicator still changes existing pending UI, so the exact-render statement and test title remain inaccurate as non-blocking documentation polish. The supplied PR state also shows unresolved review threads, which remain an operational merge blocker.

Claims that did not hold

  • Leaving all five slots unset preserves the exact existing render.
    The PR explicitly describes the indicator change as a bonus, so the append-point guarantee needs narrower wording.
  • AssistantMoreItems is a complete accessible menu-item extension point for arbitrary supplied components.
    The implementation can support a consumer that manually returns an item, but neither the public contract nor the test makes that accessibility requirement explicit.

Blocking

Worth noting, not blocking

  • apps/docs/content/elements/thread.mdx:63 — The documentation still says that leaving all five slots unset produces the exact existing render, but the unset Indicator now renders ThinkingIndicator instead of the previous bare pending span; please scope that statement to the append points or remove the default change.
  • apps/registry/scripts/build-registry.test.mjs — The known registry dependency-closure test gap remains unchanged: this interdiff modifies only registry metadata and does not add coverage that the thread item delivers its new sibling import.
  • packages/ui/src/components/react/assistant-ui/elements/thread.aui.tsx:106 — Please remove or substantially reduce the added source comment; it restates each slot's placement and PR rationale instead of documenting a non-obvious invariant, contrary to the repository's default-zero-comments rule.
  • apps/docs/content/elements/thread.mdx:184 — Please document that AssistantActionBarExtra inherits the action bar's hideWhenRunning and autohide="not-last" behavior, since controls placed beside Copy and Reload are not always visible.
  • packages/ui/src/components/react/assistant-ui/elements/thread.aui.test.tsx:614 — Please resolve the pending run in a finally block so an assertion failure cannot leave the adapter suspended and obscure the test failure.
  • The PR title and body still do not follow the prescribed conventional title and Change, Verification, and Public surface sections.

Prior findings

Finding Status
packages/ui/src/components/react/assistant-ui/elements/thread.aui.tsx:19 Resolved — The current thread registry item declares https://r.assistant-ui.com/elements-thinking-indicator.json, so the new sibling import is delivered; the Eve bundle also includes the URL.
apps/docs/content/elements/thread.mdx:63 Still open — The exact-render sentence and corresponding test title remain unchanged while the unset Indicator renders ThinkingIndicator.
apps/registry/scripts/build-registry.test.mjs Still open — The interdiff does not touch the registry test, so the existing gap around checking the thread item's dependency closure remains.
PR #8003 Still open — The title and body section names remain outside the prescribed conventional title and PR description format.

Review threads

Merge state: The PR is open and marked mergeable. Several check runs are null, so their completion status is unknown; the supplied review data does not establish approval state.; blockers: Unresolved review threads remain at packages/ui/src/components/react/assistant-ui/elements/thread.aui.tsx:744, :658, apps/docs/content/elements/thread.mdx:184, and the other supplied anchors.

Evidence · 3 verified · 4 carried
  • Issue Thread: append points for product-specific controls in the message and composer rows #8002 describes a real missing capability, and Thread previously lacked supported insertion points for these five product-specific controls.
    The issue remains open and the interdiff does not alter the underlying feature assessment.
  • The new registry payload delivers the ThinkingIndicator sibling required by the canonical Thread source.
    This resolves the blocking registry finding from the prior round.
  • The five slots render at the documented positions and order.
    These source and test anchors are unaffected by the registry-only interdiff.

Re-read the one-file interdiff, verified both new registry entries against the Thread import and Eve bundle, and rechecked the affected source, test, documentation, registry-test, and menu-primitive anchors. Nothing was executed. The registry finding is resolved; the More-menu accessibility contract and the carried documentation, test-hygiene, and governance findings remain.

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return Indicator ? (
<Indicator />
) : (
<ThinkingIndicator
data-slot="aui_assistant-message-indicator"
className="animate-pulse font-sans"
aria-label="Assistant is working"
>
{"●"}
</span>
role="status"
aria-live="polite"
label="Thinking…"
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This is the one part of the PR that isn't additive, and it needs to come out of this PR.

The stated guarantee is "no existing caller's render changes", and this changes it for everyone: an inline <span>●</span> becomes a block <div> with a blue dot, a shimmering label, and hardcoded English copy ("Thinking…", which isn't the "Thinking" the thinking-indicator docs use). Whether a persistent text status line is the right pending affordance for the default thread is a design call, not a drive-by — and per the repo's one-concern rule it should land on its own with its own rationale, not folded into a slots PR.

Two things that need answering even if it lands separately:

  • thread now imports @/components/assistant-ui/elements/thinking-indicator. Is that enumerated in the thread item's registryDependencies in apps/registry/src/registry.ts (along with surfaces, which thinking-indicator imports)? If not, shadcn add lands a file with an unresolvable import.
  • The spoken-message indicator a few hundred lines up still renders with animate-pulse. After this the two pending affordances diverge.

Indicator as a slot is fine and stands on its own; keeping the current as its default makes this PR genuinely "nothing changes unless you opt in".

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*
* The remaining five are append points: each renders nothing by default,
* so setting none of them changes nothing about how `Thread` looks or
* behaves. They exist because a consumer with one product-specific
* control (an admin-only diagnostic, a citation count, a mode toggle)
* otherwise has to fork this component or wrap and re-implement it to
* add a single element next to what's already here.
*
* `AssistantMoreItems`, when set, renders after the built-in Export as
* Markdown item in the assistant action bar's own "More" menu - the one
* append point that menu has.
* `AssistantActionBarExtra`, when set, renders as the last item in the
* action bar's own row, after "More" - for a control that belongs
* beside Copy/Reload/etc rather than tucked inside the "More" menu.
* `AssistantMessageFooterExtra`, when set, renders as a block-level
* sibling after the whole footer row (the action bar and the branch
* picker both) - for content that a bar-row trigger expands but that
* doesn't belong inside the bar's own single icon row.
* `Indicator`, when set, replaces the built-in pending affordance shown
* for a running assistant message with no content yet - a caller with
* something more specific to say while waiting (a lookup in progress, a
* tool running) renders it here instead of the default.
* `ComposerExtra`, when set, renders in the composer's own action row,

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This block restates each slot's placement (already in the ThreadComponents table in thread.mdx) and then argues for the feature — the "They exist because a consumer with one product-specific control … otherwise has to fork this component" paragraph is PR rationale, not something a future reader needs from the source. AGENTS.md defaults to zero comments and keeps only the why nobody could recover from the code. One line per slot naming the insertion point, or nothing, would match the existing doc block above it.

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{AssistantMoreItems ? <AssistantMoreItems /> : null}

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This renders inside Radix's DropdownMenu.Content (ActionBarMorePrimitive.Root wraps DropdownMenuPrimitive.Root), so whatever a consumer puts here has to be an ActionBarMorePrimitive.Item to get roving focus, typeahead and role="menuitem". Neither the docs row nor the test canary says so — the test drops a bare <span> straight into role="menu", which is exactly the shape a consumer will copy. Worth stating the contract in the ThreadComponents table row, and having the test render an ActionBarMorePrimitive.Item so the example is the correct one.

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| `ReasoningGroup` | `ComponentType<PropsWithChildren<{ group: ThreadGroupPart }>>` | Wraps a run of consecutive reasoning parts; receives the same shape. |
| `TaskGroup` | `ComponentType<{ group: ThreadGroupPart }>` | Opt in: once set, a run of tool calls that carry a nested conversation, have no registered UI, and are not MCP apps renders through it; it receives the group's `indices` and `counts` and mounts the lanes itself. `TaskGroup` from [Task card](/elements/task-card) is the kit's implementation. |
| `AssistantMoreItems` | `ComponentType` | Append point: renders after the built-in Export as Markdown item in the assistant action bar's "More" menu. |
| `AssistantActionBarExtra` | `ComponentType` | Append point: renders as the last item in the assistant action bar's own row, after "More". |

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This row (and the "citation count beside Copy and Reload" example in the paragraph above) omits the thing a consumer will trip on: the action bar root is hideWhenRunning autohide="not-last", so anything mounted here is hidden while the thread is running and, on every message that isn't the last, only appears on hover. A citation count is precisely the kind of always-visible affordance that won't work there. Either say so in the row, or move the motivating example to AssistantMessageFooterExtra, which is outside the bar.

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Blocking, on two things — thanks for the thorough writeup and the colocated tests; the slot wiring itself is clean and the default-path test is the right instinct.

1. The indicator default change has to come out

Three reviewers already said this; I'm confirming it as the maintainer call rather than a suggestion. The PR's own guarantee is "no existing caller's render changes", and this changes it for everyone: an inline <span>●</span> becomes a block flex row with a blue dot, a shimmering label and hardcoded Thinking… (the kit's own docs use Thinking, no ellipsis). Whether the default pending affordance should be a persistent text status line is a design decision that deserves its own PR and its own rationale; folded in here it also falsifies the docs sentence, the test name, and one-concern.

Two mechanics I added inline that aren't in the existing threads: the data-slot="aui_assistant-message-indicator" prop clobbers ThinkingIndicator's own data-slot (props spread last), and ShimmerLabel's shimmer class is a stylesheet utility, so the base thread picks up a CSS dependency — the eve item's docs string enumerates the styles Eve users must paste by hand and wasn't updated. Also still open from the earlier round: SpokenMessage keeps its indicator, so the two pending affordances diverge after this.

Keep Indicator as a slot with the current as its default and the registry diff disappears with it.

2. Direction sign-off on the five slots

Thread is delivered by copy — shadcn add lands the file in the user's project and they own it. "Fork the component" is the delivery model, not the failure mode the problem statement makes it out to be, so the premise for permanent insertion holes in the canonical source is weaker than the description argues, and AGENTS is explicit that registry components stay minimal and unopinionated. I'm not saying no — an in-monorepo consumer of packages/ui, or the ThreadComponents surface already having replace-slots, is a reasonable counter. But five location-named holes added at once by a first PR needs a maintainer saying the direction is wanted before the shape is reviewed. Is #8002 something a maintainer confirmed?

If it does land, the names should be internally consistent and unambiguous: Indicator collides conceptually with the spoken-message indicator and covers only the assistant-message one (AssistantMessageIndicator), and AssistantMoreItems / AssistantActionBarExtra / ComposerExtra name three different things three different ways.

Notes, not blockers

  • AssistantMoreItems contract (already raised): it renders inside Radix DropdownMenu.Content, so a consumer's child must be an ActionBarMorePrimitive.Item or it gets no role="menuitem", roving focus or typeahead. The test canary drops a bare <span> into role="menu" — that's the shape people will copy. State the contract in the docs row and make the test render the correct thing.
  • AssistantActionBarExtra caveat (already raised): the bar root is hideWhenRunning autohide="not-last", so anything here is hidden while running and hover-only on non-last messages. The motivating "citation count beside Copy and Reload" example doesn't survive that; either say so or move the example to AssistantMessageFooterExtra.
  • The docs snippet's SourcesTrigger/SourcesPanel don't exist; mark them illustrative.
  • renders identically to today when no append point is set checks four anchors, not identity — fine as a regression guard, but the name overclaims (and is currently false).
  • Trim the JSDoc block to the placement facts; the "they exist because…" paragraph is PR rationale, which AGENTS keeps out of source comments.

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ThreadComponents now supports five optional component slots. Thread renders these slots in the composer action row, More menu, assistant action bar, and message footer. Pending assistant messages use ThinkingIndicator by default, or a custom Indicator. Documentation and tests cover the new API and rendering positions.

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Existing Thread consumers can see a changed pending indicator without configuring a slot. Correct the API and documentation wording before merge so consumers understand this compatibility change.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: five append points for product-specific controls in Thread.
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* The remaining five are append points: each renders nothing by default,
* so setting none of them changes nothing about how `Thread` looks or
* behaves. They exist because a consumer with one product-specific

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Correct the unset-default contract.

Indicator is unset by default, but its default rendering changed from the former pulsing dot to ThinkingIndicator. Existing callers can therefore see changed pending UI.

  • packages/ui/src/components/react/assistant-ui/elements/thread.aui.tsx#L85-L87: State that the four append points render nothing when unset, and document Indicator as a changed built-in default.
  • apps/docs/content/elements/thread.mdx#L63-L63: Remove the claim that ignoring all five slots preserves the exact prior render.
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In `@packages/ui/src/components/react/assistant-ui/elements/thread.aui.tsx` around
lines 85 - 87, Update the Thread slot documentation to state that four append
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P3: In both pending-indicator tests, `resolveRun()` is only called at the end of the body. If an assertion above it fails, the adapter's run promise never resolves and the runtime stays suspended, making the failure harder to diagnose (and the run state leaks past the failed test). Move the append/assert section into `try { ... } finally { resolveRun(); }`, or resolve the run from a `finally`-style teardown.</violation>
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P3: This sentence says that omitting all five slots preserves the exact existing render, but the unset `Indicator` now replaces the old pulsing span with `ThinkingIndicator`. Reword it to describe the unchanged extension points while explicitly excluding this intentional default improvement.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="apps/docs/content/elements/thread.mdx:67">
P3: The example references `SourcesTrigger` and `SourcesPanel`, but no such exports exist anywhere in the repo — the kit's sources element (`packages/ui/src/components/react/assistant-ui/elements/sources.aui.tsx`) exports only `Sources`, `Source`, `SourceIcon`, `SourceTitle`, and `sourceVariants`. A reader copying this snippet gets an unresolvable identifier with no hint that these are placeholders. Add a comment marking them as illustrative (e.g. "bring your own, or use the kit's `Sources`") or use an actually exported component.</violation>
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P3: In both pending-indicator tests, resolveRun() is only called at the end of the body. If an assertion above it fails, the adapter's run promise never resolves and the runtime stays suspended, making the failure harder to diagnose (and the run state leaks past the failed test). Move the append/assert section into try { ... } finally { resolveRun(); }, or resolve the run from a finally-style teardown.

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<comment>In both pending-indicator tests, `resolveRun()` is only called at the end of the body. If an assertion above it fails, the adapter's run promise never resolves and the runtime stays suspended, making the failure harder to diagnose (and the run state leaks past the failed test). Move the append/assert section into `try { ... } finally { resolveRun(); }`, or resolve the run from a `finally`-style teardown.</comment>

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@@ -402,4 +503,143 @@ describe("Thread", () => {
+        await Promise.resolve();
+      });
+
+      expect(screen.getByRole("status")).toBeTruthy();
+      expect(screen.getByText("Thinking…")).toBeTruthy();
+
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```tsx
const THREAD_COMPONENTS: ThreadComponents = {
AssistantActionBarExtra: SourcesTrigger,

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P3: The example references SourcesTrigger and SourcesPanel, but no such exports exist anywhere in the repo — the kit's sources element (packages/ui/src/components/react/assistant-ui/elements/sources.aui.tsx) exports only Sources, Source, SourceIcon, SourceTitle, and sourceVariants. A reader copying this snippet gets an unresolvable identifier with no hint that these are placeholders. Add a comment marking them as illustrative (e.g. "bring your own, or use the kit's Sources") or use an actually exported component.

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<comment>The example references `SourcesTrigger` and `SourcesPanel`, but no such exports exist anywhere in the repo — the kit's sources element (`packages/ui/src/components/react/assistant-ui/elements/sources.aui.tsx`) exports only `Sources`, `Source`, `SourceIcon`, `SourceTitle`, and `sourceVariants`. A reader copying this snippet gets an unresolvable identifier with no hint that these are placeholders. Add a comment marking them as illustrative (e.g. "bring your own, or use the kit's `Sources`") or use an actually exported component.</comment>

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@@ -60,6 +60,17 @@ A message with `metadata.modality: "voice"` renders as a spoken row (`aui_spoken
+
+```tsx
+const THREAD_COMPONENTS: ThreadComponents = {
+  AssistantActionBarExtra: SourcesTrigger,
+  AssistantMessageFooterExtra: SourcesPanel,
+};
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With `components.TaskGroup` set, a tool call that carries a nested conversation (`part.messages`) and has no registered UI renders through that slot instead of the tool group, and the kit's `TaskGroup` shows sibling delegations as `aui_task-group` lanes, four at a time. MCP app calls (a `ui://` app resource) keep the standalone tool path, and without the slot every such call renders like any other tool call. See [Task card](/elements/task-card).

A consumer embedding `Thread` has no supported way to add a product-specific control to the surfaces it owns today: an admin-only diagnostic in the message menu, a citation count beside Copy and Reload, a mode toggle in the composer. Without a slot, that means forking the component or wrapping and re-implementing it. Five append points cover this: `AssistantMoreItems` (after Export as Markdown in the "More" menu), `AssistantActionBarExtra` (the last item in the action bar row), `AssistantMessageFooterExtra` (a block-level sibling after the whole footer row), `Indicator` (the pending affordance for a running, contentless assistant message), and `ComposerExtra` (the composer's own action row, beside the attach button). Each defaults to unset, so a caller that ignores all five gets the exact render it gets today.

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P3: This sentence says that omitting all five slots preserves the exact existing render, but the unset Indicator now replaces the old pulsing span with ThinkingIndicator. Reword it to describe the unchanged extension points while explicitly excluding this intentional default improvement.

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<comment>This sentence says that omitting all five slots preserves the exact existing render, but the unset `Indicator` now replaces the old pulsing span with `ThinkingIndicator`. Reword it to describe the unchanged extension points while explicitly excluding this intentional default improvement.</comment>

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@@ -60,6 +60,17 @@ A message with `metadata.modality: "voice"` renders as a spoken row (`aui_spoken
 
 With `components.TaskGroup` set, a tool call that carries a nested conversation (`part.messages`) and has no registered UI renders through that slot instead of the tool group, and the kit's `TaskGroup` shows sibling delegations as `aui_task-group` lanes, four at a time. MCP app calls (a `ui://` app resource) keep the standalone tool path, and without the slot every such call renders like any other tool call. See [Task card](/elements/task-card).
 
+A consumer embedding `Thread` has no supported way to add a product-specific control to the surfaces it owns today: an admin-only diagnostic in the message menu, a citation count beside Copy and Reload, a mode toggle in the composer. Without a slot, that means forking the component or wrapping and re-implementing it. Five append points cover this: `AssistantMoreItems` (after Export as Markdown in the "More" menu), `AssistantActionBarExtra` (the last item in the action bar row), `AssistantMessageFooterExtra` (a block-level sibling after the whole footer row), `Indicator` (the pending affordance for a running, contentless assistant message), and `ComposerExtra` (the composer's own action row, beside the attach button). Each defaults to unset, so a caller that ignores all five gets the exact render it gets today.
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2 inline comments below, on packages/ui/src/components/react/assistant-ui/elements/thread.aui.tsx, apps/docs/content/elements/thread.mdx.

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ReasoningText,
ReasoningTrigger,
} from "@/components/assistant-ui/elements/reasoning.aui";
import { ThinkingIndicator } from "@/components/assistant-ui/elements/thinking-indicator";

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The canonical registry-delivered Thread now imports ThinkingIndicator, but the thread registry item does not declare https://r.assistant-ui.com/elements-thinking-indicator.json. Please add that dependency to apps/registry/src/registry.ts:1067-1079; otherwise shadcn add thread installs a file with an unresolved sibling import.


With `components.TaskGroup` set, a tool call that carries a nested conversation (`part.messages`) and has no registered UI renders through that slot instead of the tool group, and the kit's `TaskGroup` shows sibling delegations as `aui_task-group` lanes, four at a time. MCP app calls (a `ui://` app resource) keep the standalone tool path, and without the slot every such call renders like any other tool call. See [Task card](/elements/task-card).

A consumer embedding `Thread` has no supported way to add a product-specific control to the surfaces it owns today: an admin-only diagnostic in the message menu, a citation count beside Copy and Reload, a mode toggle in the composer. Without a slot, that means forking the component or wrapping and re-implementing it. Five append points cover this: `AssistantMoreItems` (after Export as Markdown in the "More" menu), `AssistantActionBarExtra` (the last item in the action bar row), `AssistantMessageFooterExtra` (a block-level sibling after the whole footer row), `Indicator` (the pending affordance for a running, contentless assistant message), and `ComposerExtra` (the composer's own action row, beside the attach button). Each defaults to unset, so a caller that ignores all five gets the exact render it gets today.

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The docs sentence and the test name at thread.aui.test.tsx:508 claim an exact no-append render, but the changed indicator branch replaces the old bare pulsing span with visible Thinking… content. The PR body calls this an intentional bonus, so the guarantee should be scoped to the append-point structure or the default change removed.

…ency

The thread component and eve-chat both render the shipped
ThinkingIndicator (this PR's default-indicator change) but neither
declared it as a registryDependency, so the CLI installer would never
fetch it - caught by CI's registry drift check.

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Two mechanics on top of the "this default change should not be in this PR" point already raised above:

  • ThinkingIndicator sets data-slot="thinking-indicator" before its {...props} spread, so this data-slot silently clobbers it. Anything keyed on [data-slot="thinking-indicator"] stops matching for the one instance the kit itself renders.
  • ThinkingIndicatorShimmerLabel renders the shimmer class, which is a stylesheet utility, not a Tailwind class. The default thread therefore now has a CSS dependency it did not have. That matters for the eve item in particular, whose registry docs string says Eve installs files without touching CSS and lists exactly which styles to paste into globals.css — that list wasn't updated here, so an Eve install gets a static label where the shipped component shimmers.

Also worth confirming: elements-thinking-indicator itself declares surfaces (ShimmerLabel, mono), and no other registry item that ships thread.aui.tsx was missed.

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5 inline comments below, on packages/ui/src/components/react/assistant-ui/elements/thread.aui.tsx (2), apps/docs/content/elements/thread.mdx (2), packages/ui/src/components/react/assistant-ui/elements/thread.aui.test.tsx.

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{AssistantMoreItems ? <AssistantMoreItems /> : null}

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Please make AssistantMoreItems render through an accessible ActionBarMorePrimitive.Item, or explicitly require every supplied component to render that item and document the contract; the current insertion accepts arbitrary content directly inside the menu.


With `components.TaskGroup` set, a tool call that carries a nested conversation (`part.messages`) and has no registered UI renders through that slot instead of the tool group, and the kit's `TaskGroup` shows sibling delegations as `aui_task-group` lanes, four at a time. MCP app calls (a `ui://` app resource) keep the standalone tool path, and without the slot every such call renders like any other tool call. See [Task card](/elements/task-card).

A consumer embedding `Thread` has no supported way to add a product-specific control to the surfaces it owns today: an admin-only diagnostic in the message menu, a citation count beside Copy and Reload, a mode toggle in the composer. Without a slot, that means forking the component or wrapping and re-implementing it. Five append points cover this: `AssistantMoreItems` (after Export as Markdown in the "More" menu), `AssistantActionBarExtra` (the last item in the action bar row), `AssistantMessageFooterExtra` (a block-level sibling after the whole footer row), `Indicator` (the pending affordance for a running, contentless assistant message), and `ComposerExtra` (the composer's own action row, beside the attach button). Each defaults to unset, so a caller that ignores all five gets the exact render it gets today.

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The documentation still says that leaving all five slots unset produces the exact existing render, but the unset Indicator now renders ThinkingIndicator instead of the previous bare pending span; please scope that statement to the append points or remove the default change.

* for a running assistant message with no content yet - a caller with
* something more specific to say while waiting (a lookup in progress, a
* tool running) renders it here instead of the default.
* `ComposerExtra`, when set, renders in the composer's own action row,

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Please remove or substantially reduce the added source comment; it restates each slot's placement and PR rationale instead of documenting a non-obvious invariant, contrary to the repository's default-zero-comments rule.

| `ReasoningGroup` | `ComponentType<PropsWithChildren<{ group: ThreadGroupPart }>>` | Wraps a run of consecutive reasoning parts; receives the same shape. |
| `TaskGroup` | `ComponentType<{ group: ThreadGroupPart }>` | Opt in: once set, a run of tool calls that carry a nested conversation, have no registered UI, and are not MCP apps renders through it; it receives the group's `indices` and `counts` and mounts the lanes itself. `TaskGroup` from [Task card](/elements/task-card) is the kit's implementation. |
| `AssistantMoreItems` | `ComponentType` | Append point: renders after the built-in Export as Markdown item in the assistant action bar's "More" menu. |
| `AssistantActionBarExtra` | `ComponentType` | Append point: renders as the last item in the assistant action bar's own row, after "More". |

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Please document that AssistantActionBarExtra inherits the action bar's hideWhenRunning and autohide="not-last" behavior, since controls placed beside Copy and Reload are not always visible.

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Please resolve the pending run in a finally block so an assertion failure cannot leave the adapter suspended and obscure the test failure.

JesseWebDotCom added a commit to getmaipai/commons that referenced this pull request Sep 22, 2026
SHELL-02 slice 6's own grouped "+" menu (Add/Apps) needs to be the
composer's ONE attach control, not a second bare button beside it -
ComposerExtra (ui-v0.5.31) renders alongside ComposerAddAttachment,
this replaces it outright. Same append-point shape AssistantMoreItems/
AssistantActionBarExtra/AssistantMessageFooterExtra/Indicator/
ComposerExtra already established. Default unset; no existing caller's
render changes.

To be added to assistant-ui/assistant-ui#8003 as a sixth append point.

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