AI Chat Empty State
Assistant chat with no messages that offers four starting points configured by the workspace.
About this block
What it's for
- Assistant chat with no messages that offers four starting points configured by the workspace.
- Side help panel with three quick prompts about the open project.
- Support assistant whose team configures templates with product and customer variables.
Includes
- Prompt suggestions
- Customisable suggestion set
- Templated prompt variables
- Variable fill form
- Resolved prompt preview
- Category filtering
- Suggestion search
- Roving keyboard navigation
Works with
- Radix UI primitives (the registry variant it ships in)
- React 19, Next.js App Router and Tailwind CSS 4, installed with the shadcn CLI
- Your theme tokens, in light and dark mode
Install
Included with Agentic UI Kit (one-time license). Install needs your license key: see pricing · connect your project.
Agentic UI CLI
agentic-ui add ai-chat-empty-stateInstalls through shadcn and adapts the component to your design tokens.
shadcn CLI
npx shadcn@4.17.0 add @agentic-ui/ai-chat-empty-stateUsed in
A standalone component: drop it into any screen.
- Type
- Block
- Variants
- Radix UI
- Themes
- Light and dark
- Widths
- Preview it at desktop, tablet and mobile widths above.
- Motion
- Animated, with a reduced-motion fallback
- Sample data
- Ships with sample data in
data.ts; replace it with your own.
- npm packages
- None beyond your project's React and Next.js
- Registry dependencies
lib-primitives- Files
4 files
- components/agentic-ui/ai-chat-empty-state/index.tsx
- components/agentic-ui/ai-chat-empty-state/data.ts
- components/agentic-ui/ai-chat-empty-state/types.ts
- components/agentic-ui/ai-chat-empty-state/suggestions.ts
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