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Agent Loading States Thinking Shimmer
curatedfreebeui/thinking-shimmer
A quiet shimmer that keeps the agent's current status readable while work continues.
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npx shadcn@latest add @beui/thinking-shimmernpm deps: clsx, tailwind-merge
Our notes
A quiet agent waiting label. Tie it to actual work and replace it with a useful result or error rather than an endless decorative loop.- Source
- beUI (free)
- Kind
- component
- Categories
- loader, agent-ui
- Use as
- drop-in — replaces your component
- Applies to
- loaderagent-ui
- Motion
- on loop, state · subtle · css · low cost
- Tags
- react, tailwind-v4, motion, agents
- Licence
- MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 Saurabh Chauhan; retain the upstream notice when copying source.
- Live demo
- beui.dev
- Docs
- beui.dev
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