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AI · October 3, 2026

Thinking Orbs

Animated AI Status Indicator Component Library for React

Thinking Orbs launched on October 3, 2026 with 89 votes, #168 of 3,169 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

What it does

A React component library of animated AI agent status orbs. Thinking, searching, compacting and more, built with attention to detail on every state and variant.

Thinking Orbs is a React component library of well-crafted, animated orbs for AI: thinking, searching, compacting and more status indicators. Free, open source.

A component library of well-crafted, animated AI status indicators for React. No dependencies, 3.8 KB gzipped. Install Thinking Orbs from npm, or copy the React component into your project with shadcn. The React orb needs nothing but React, and the plain JS one needs nothing at all. Import the Orb component and give it a state, and optionally a variant. The core ships one shape and one render. Other shapes and ways of drawing it are opt-in, so only what you import lands in your bundle. Try them all in the playgroundfrom thinkingorbs.com

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