# Motion Streaming Text

An assistant reply that arrives in irregular chunks.

- id: `motion-streaming-text`
- Page: https://agentic-ui-kit.com/components/motion-streaming-text
- Live preview: https://agentic-ui-kit.com/live/component/motion-streaming-text

## Install

```bash
agentic-ui add motion-streaming-text
npx shadcn@4.17.0 add @agentic-ui/motion-streaming-text
```

## Metadata

- **Level:** block
- **Category:** motion
- **Installable in:** Radix UI (registry variant new-york), Base UI (registry variant base-vega)
- **Capabilities:** smoothed-token-reveal, backlog-catch-up, per-word-fade, streaming-caret, announced-stream-status, stop-reveal-all-error-states, personality-tempo, reduced-motion-fallback, informative-state-preservation
- **Intents:** communicate, track-status, monitor-live
- **Suits domains:** ai-workspace, saas, operations, devtools, knowledge, crm
- **Interaction:** click, keyboard-navigation
- **Screen role:** communication
- **Density:** medium
- **Dark mode:** yes
- **Use it for:** An assistant reply that arrives in irregular chunks, Automatic ticket summary generated in a side card, Output of a process or agent shown as it is produced
- **Avoid when:** Full text available in advance (render it directly), Markdown with code blocks or tables (use an incremental renderer such as ai-stream-renderer and apply only the pacing), Waits without partial text (use motion-typing-indicator or motion-spinner-set)
- **Preserve when adapting:** body-aria-live-off-with-status-region, reveal-never-ahead-of-received-text, instant-reveal-without-motion, personality-tempo-tokens
- **Replace when adapting:** status-labels, stream-source-adapter
- **Adaptation effort:** low
- **Coupling:** low
- **Quality score:** 9.28/10
- **Quality breakdown:** visual 9/10, responsive 9/10, accessibility 9.5/10, code 9/10
- **Uses primitives:** button, card
- **npm dependencies:** @agentic-ui/motion, @agentic-ui/tokens, react
- **Motion:** profile subtle, library css, reduced-motion fallback yes, target 60 fps
- **Registry dependencies:** lib-motion