copilotkit__copilotkit/packages/web-components

@copilotkit/web-components

Framework-agnostic, shadow-DOM Lit custom elements for CopilotKit.

This package currently ships <copilotkit-threads-drawer> — a public, self-contained, controlled threads drawer. It is a pure VIEW: domain data flows in as properties and user intent flows out as DOM CustomEvents. It imports no React, Angular, or @copilotkit/core code and renders correctly in any host page, surviving hostile host CSS (all: unset, Tailwind preflight !important).

Install

npm install @copilotkit/web-components lit

lit is a peer/runtime dependency so the host dedupes a single Lit runtime.

Usage

import { defineCopilotKitThreadsDrawer } from "@copilotkit/web-components/threads-drawer";

defineCopilotKitThreadsDrawer(); // registers <copilotkit-threads-drawer> (idempotent)

<copilotkit-threads-drawer active-thread-id="t-123"></copilotkit-threads-drawer>
<script>
  const drawer = document.querySelector("copilotkit-threads-drawer");
  drawer.threads = [
    {
      id: "t-123",
      name: "My thread",
      archived: false,
      createdAt: "...",
      updatedAt: "...",
    },
  ];
  drawer.addEventListener("thread-selected", (e) => open(e.detail.threadId));
  drawer.addEventListener("new-thread", () => createThread());
</script>

Inbound properties (DOMAIN state — owned by the consumer)

property	type	notes
threads	DrawerThread[]	the element re-orders + filters authoritatively
loading	boolean	initial-fetch loading
error	string | null	initial-fetch error → actionable Retry
activeThreadId	string | null	drives selection highlight
licensed	boolean	false → upsell replaces the list
fetchingMore	boolean	in-flight pagination
fetchMoreError	string | null	inline "couldn't load more — retry"
open	boolean	externally controllable (mobile coordination)
collapsed	boolean	desktop collapse-to-rail

Outbound events (INTENT — bubbling + composed CustomEvents)

thread-selected, archive, unarchive, delete (after in-element confirm), new-thread, filter-change, open-change, retry ({ scope }), upsell.

The element owns VIEW state: open/collapsed, the Active/All filter, the confirm-delete dialog, and per-row entry/reveal animations.

Theming (hybrid)

• CSS variables pierce the shadow boundary — set --cpk-drawer-* (-bg, -fg, -surface, -accent, -primary, -danger, -border, -ring, -radius, -width, -rail-width, -font-family, …) from the host.
• ::part() hooks on structural nodes (root, header, list, row, row-name, confirm-dialog, backdrop, …).
• Named slots: header, footer, empty, upsell, memories, plus a per-row slot row:{id} that projects wrapper-provided row content while the element keeps the selection/archived/animation chrome around it.

The built-in default skin's token values are derived at build time from react-core's canonical theme (packages/react-core/src/v2/styles/globals.css) by scripts/generate-tokens.ts, which writes the checked-in src/threads-drawer/generated-tokens.ts. Run pnpm run gen:tokens to regenerate; generated-tokens.test.ts fails if the checked-in values drift from react-core.

Host layout (reserving the drawer column)

On desktop the drawer is an in-flow column (its default width is 320px, set via --cpk-drawer-width); below the mobile breakpoint it becomes an off-canvas overlay. Host pages that place the drawer beside their content need to reserve that column and collapse it on mobile — off the SAME width and breakpoint the element itself uses, not hand-copied literals.

Two surfaces expose these values:

• @copilotkit/web-components/threads-drawer/layout.css — an optional, importable stylesheet. It sets a default :root { --cpk-drawer-width: 320px } and ships two helper classes:

  import "@copilotkit/web-components/threads-drawer/layout.css";
  
  <div className="copilotkit-threads-layout">
    <CopilotThreadsDrawer />
    <div className="copilotkit-threads-main">…your chat + content…</div>
  </div>;
  

  copilotkit-threads-layout reserves the --cpk-drawer-width column and collapses to a single track on mobile; copilotkit-threads-main pins the content to the second track (so the client-only drawer mounting after hydration causes no layout shift). Both compose with your own classes.

• @copilotkit/web-components/threads-drawer/layout-constants — the same values as JS constants (DRAWER_DEFAULT_WIDTH, DRAWER_DEFAULT_WIDTH_PX, MOBILE_BREAKPOINT_PX, MOBILE_MAX_WIDTH_PX, MOBILE_MAX_WIDTH_QUERY) for framework coordination layers that need the breakpoint in JS (matchMedia(MOBILE_MAX_WIDTH_QUERY)). This subpath is pure — importing it does not evaluate the Lit element, so it is SSR-safe.

Override --cpk-drawer-width (on :root or any ancestor) to resize the drawer and its reserved column together.

Mobile + a11y

Below 768px (i.e. at/below 767px — MOBILE_MAX_WIDTH_QUERY) the drawer is an off-canvas modal overlay with backdrop, Escape close, scroll-lock, and a focus trap (mobile only) that operates over the composed/flattened tree so slotted rows are included. On desktop it is an in-flow region with collapse-to-rail — not a modal (no focus trap, no scroll-lock).