For AI Agents
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Best for: A support sidebar beside a docs page that ticks each knowledge base article from queued to read and offers a ticket when none covers it
When to use
- A full page assistant chat, new chat welcome screen or 2 model comparison inside an AI product
- A copilot docked beside the page it works on, or opened from a launcher in the page corner
- Answers that show the work behind them: sources read, tool steps, plans to approve and run cost
When not to use
- A general assistant beside any page, replying to a sentence quoted from an answer: use the Quote Reply Sidebar block
- Answers scoped to connected work apps such as Drive and Slack, not a docs library: use the Connected Apps Chat block
- The product layout around the chat: a sidebar of threads, workspaces and account menus: use the App Shell blocks
- A plain overlay chat panel opened from a button, with suggestion chips and a composer: use the Sheet blocks
- A highlighted snippet with a filename header and copy button, outside any conversation: use the Code Block component
Agent notes
- Point
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Shadcn Docs Support Assistant Block
Ask AI docs support panel that shows the knowledge base being read. Part of the ReUI Shadcn AI & Agents AI Chat blocks collection.
A support assistant docked to a documentation page as a hideable right sidebar, answering only from the product knowledge base and showing its work while it does. Every question runs a visible retrieval: the search, then each matched article ticking from queued to read, then the write, and the finished answer folds that reading into a receipt naming how many articles were read and how many survived into the answer. Answers arrive as prose with numbered steps and a caveat, carry helpful and not helpful voting, and when the documentation genuinely does not cover a question the assistant says so and opens a support ticket instead of guessing.
It is composed from Bubble, Button, Collapsible, Dropdown Menu, Empty, Field, Icon Stack, Input Group, and more, so every part of it is a primitive you can restyle with your own design tokens.
What You Can Build With the Docs Support Assistant Block
- Install it with the ReUI registry command in the toolbar above, then swap the placeholder content, data wiring, and business logic for your own.
- Compare it across all eight ReUI styles and both the Base UI and Radix bases in the customizer before committing to one direction.
- Combine it with the other Shadcn AI & Agents AI Chat blocks to assemble a full screen instead of a single section.
All Shadcn AI & Agents AI Chat Blocks
The rest of this category, each on its own page with a live preview, the components it is built from, and the install command.
- Copilot Shell AI copilot chat surface with streaming transcript and recent chats
- Docked Assistant Docked AI assistant chat panel beside a page with insert into draft
- Prompt Starter Welcome AI chat welcome screen with prompt starters and a docked composer
- Quote Reply Sidebar Floating right chat sidebar that pushes the page and replies to a quoted sentence
- Connected Apps Chat AI chat welcome screen where connected work apps set the answer scope
- Agentic Task Panel Agentic side panel where the answers carry the controls
- Model Comparison Split pane model comparison running one prompt against two AI models
- Voice Assistant Panel Docked voice first assistant panel that answers in a different shape each time
- Branching Thread Branching AI chat thread with reply versions, cited sources and code artifacts
- Structured Answers AI chat welcome screen with scoped sources and structured answers
- Answer Receipts AI chat stage with framed answer receipts on a live dot field
- Corner Chat Popup Corner AI chat popup with history, expand and page context
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- AI Usage (2) Spend planning and month to date spend views for AI product workspaces, by token volume, model, budget and caps.
All Shadcn Block Groups
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Frequently Asked Questions
When should I use the Docs Support Assistant block?
Use it for a support sidebar beside a docs page that ticks each knowledge base article from queued to read and offers a ticket when none covers it.
The AI Chat category fits:
- A full page assistant chat, new chat welcome screen or 2 model comparison inside an AI product
- A copilot docked beside the page it works on, or opened from a launcher in the page corner
- Answers that show the work behind them: sources read, tool steps, plans to approve and run cost
For a general assistant beside any page, replying to a sentence quoted from an answer, use the Quote Reply Sidebar block. For answers scoped to connected work apps such as Drive and Slack, not a docs library, use the Connected Apps Chat block. For the product layout around the chat: a sidebar of threads, workspaces and account menus, use the App Shell blocks. For a plain overlay chat panel opened from a button, with suggestion chips and a composer, use the Sheet blocks. For a highlighted snippet with a filename header and copy button, outside any conversation, use the Code Block component.
What is the Docs Support Assistant block built with?
Can I restyle the Docs Support Assistant block?
How should I use Shadcn ai chat blocks in a real project?
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