Chat Orb
ProThe chatbot launcher for any site: a small sphere with pill eyes that blink and follow your cursor, a teaser bubble that pops in, and a press that morphs the orb into the full AI Chat with its face shrinking into the header.
Installation
npx shadcn add @useplanes/chat-orb
Unlock with Planes Pro
$99 once · 80 Pro components · lifetime updates.
<ChatOrb
position="bottom-right"
teaser="Hi there! Need a hand?"
chat={{ title: "Assistant", script: myScript }}
/>Use cases
Site-wide support bot
Drop it in the root layout and every page gets a launcher that feels alive.
Docs assistant
An always-there helper that opens into a scripted or live chat.
Product onboarding
The teaser nudges new users, the orb watches them until they click.
Marketing demo
Show your AI product with a mascot instead of a generic chat icon.
Related components
All AI components
Thinking Loader
An AI thinking pill that cycles through phase labels like Searching and Writing, then pops a check when it finishes.
AI Prompt Composer
An AI chat composer with an auto-growing input, a model picker, and a send button that turns into a stop button while a response streams.
Streaming Message
An assistant message that develops in like ink — a soft-feathered edge sweeps down the text with an iridescent glow riding the write-frontier, then copy, regenerate, and feedback actions fade in without shifting the layout.
Reasoning Trace
A collapsible thinking panel that streams reasoning steps one at a time, then folds down to a short summary you can reopen.
Tool Call Card
The inline row an agent leaves when it uses a tool: a mono call signature like read_file(page.tsx), the tool's glyph with a spinner that resolves into a drawn check, a note that shimmers while it runs, and a panel that unfolds to the arguments and result.
Agent Plan
A plan that behaves like an agent's plan: steps light up along a rail that fills as they finish, the active one breathes and shimmers its sub-status, failures insert recovery steps that slide the list apart, and the whole thing folds into one line when it's done.